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 Martyn Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981), the renowned Welsh preacher at Westminster Chapel in London (from 1943-1968), wrote “Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure” which became his most popular book.  It is essentially an exposition of the “chorus” in Psalms 42 and 43: “Why are you cast down, O my soul, and why are you in turmoil within me?  Hope in God; for I shall again praise Him, my salvation and my God.”  This “chorus” is repeated three times in these two Psalms (Ps.42:5-6, 11; 43:5).  Lloyd-Jones wrote, “I suggest that the main trouble in this whole matter of spiritual depression in a sense is this, that we allow our self to talk to us instead of talking to our self” (p.20).