Bono on the Psalms

"Abandonment, displacement, is the stuff of my favorite psalms. The Psalter may be a font of gospel music, but for me it's in his despair that the psalmist really reveals the nature of his special relationship with God. Honesty, even to the point of anger." Bono, the Bible, and the Blues, Modern Reformation, Volume 14, No. 1, January/February 2005, p. 33.

"Psalm 40 is interesting in that it suggests a time in which grace will replace karma, and love replace the very strict laws of Moses (i.e. fulfil them). I love that thought. David, who committed some of the most selfish as well as selfless acts, was depending on it. That the scriptures are brim full of hustlers, murderers, cowards, adulterers and mercenaries used to shock me; now it is a source of great comfort." Id. at 35.

Is Bono a believer? Joost Nixion, executive producer of St. Anne's Public House, has an interesting editorial entitled A Case of Vertigo.

For good material on singing the psalms, I can not recommend Crown & Covenant Publications more highly.

What is your favorite psalm?