It is a nice verse with a comforting theme, but it is set in the context of struggle. The psalmist is in the fight of his life. His enemy is a former friend, turned against him, who is using every tactic, weapon, and dirty trick in his arsenal to attack. The psalmist is calling on God's protection, deliverance, and vindication, constantly reminding himself that it is not his own strength and power that will prevail, but God's. Casting his burden on the LORD is the underlying theme and reason for this process of "getting it all out," his complaint, his internal dialogue, and his wrestling prayer with God. He knows in the depth of his heart that God will sustain him.
In the Lenten season, as we move toward our commemoration of the cross and celebration of the resurrection, we cannot bypass he Garden where, I believe, all the prayers of the psalms are compacted into a nuclear moment of explosive prayer before the Father by the Son. It is all dealt with and vindication through crucifixion is accomplished in a matter of eternal hours.
The burden is all cast upon the LORD there and "It is finished."
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