This can be a reading for the passion Sunday turn many of us prefer. I always recall Bill Clemenson saying that he went that way, for how much could you talk about a parade.
Again, the plurality of psalms are laments. We then learn that we can put even the hardest time into the envelope of prayer.

1) Famed exegete Mick Saunders reminded me of the important of reading in light of context when he applied the Ezekiel 37 passage to folks in a nursing home. In similar fashion, this psalm opens up if we place it in that particular place. of course we have these feeling irrespective of condition, as when we are depressed. when my brother died, for some days, it felt as if I had been elbowed at the sternum, bond-deep hurt. for those whose minds go to illness and emotion, I then got pleurisy some time after.

2) broken vessel could lead to a discussion of feeling useless, or cracking up, of being refuse

3) False accusation continue to be a problem. How do we handle them?

4) After all this we emerge with trust in God. What impact does having one's times in the hand of God affect you? How about a congregation? Perhaps the sheer catharsis brings us to this position. Perhaps it is a counterweight to the misery.

5) Most vividly, apply this section to Jesus in the garden. Consider how some of the Reformers saw the descent into hell as reflecting feeling like this in the garden.