An outcast. What a sad position to occupy. Many societies, in one way or another, have dubbed certain classes of people as virtual outcasts. Outcasts from privileged places, positions and opportunities. In the context of this psalm, it is probably referring to when God’s people had been exiled or cast out of their promised land by foreign nations as God’s judgment for their persistent sin.

By nature, all of us our outcasts. Adam and Eve, our first parents, were cast of out of the Garden of paradise because of sin. We have followed in their footsteps, choosing our own ways instead of God’s. As a result we are born in the world cast out from a relationship with God. How devastating are the effects of sin!