The Cost of What Must Be Done

The Lord that the psalmist is praying to is our Lord Jesus Christ. It's Jesus who gives us the words to say back to him when we're lamenting. He didn't just look down from his holy height as verse 19 said, he took on flesh and he came down. When he came down, he entered our affliction with us, though he didn't sin. And no one was afflicted as he was in Gethsemane.