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  A dismayed heart     [Psalms 143]     One of my cousins was really afraid of a dark room when he was a child.  As I know, the reason he was afraid of the dark room was because his father used to put him in the dark room as a discipline when he didn’t listen to his parents.  As I was meditating on Psalms 143, he came into my mind because the psalmist David said in verse 4, “So my spirit grows faint within me; my heart within me is dismayed.”  The meaning of the word "dismayed" here according to a Korean dictionary is s (a) very dark and (b) horrible, and according to the Korean-Chinese dictionary (a) darkness and dreariness, (b) cruel and helpless or (c) miserable (Internet).  In Psalms 143:4, the psalmist said his heat is “dismayed’.  Here, the word “dismayed” in Hebrew has meaning the psalmist David’s heart was afraid because of great disaster of God’s judgment due to his sins.  In other words, David...