Walter Brueggemann skryf:

“Sound religion is so often a matter of finding the right words, words that will let us genuinely experience, process, and embrace the edges of our life. The dominant ideology of our culture wants to silence all serious speech, cover all serious loss, and deny all real grief. But such a muteness will leave us numb, unable to hope or to care . . . [David’s] poem is a bold, daring, subversive alternative. It is an assertion and enactment of the conviction that our humanness may not and must not be silenced.”