Praying the Psalms with Augustine and Friends

Chapter 5: Psalms 81–101

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of shadow is what we find here, not the reality. Let us praise the Lord as far as we are able, but with mingled mourning: for while we praise we long for him, but do not have him yet. When we have him, all our sorrows will be taken from us, and nothing will remain but praise, unmixed and everlasting.