This short lament opens with the anguished question how long, O Lord, will You forget me forever, expressing the fundamental crisis of divine abandonment. The repetition of forgetting and hiding emphasizes the sense of being utterly removed from God's awareness and care. The question assumes that God's memory constitutes the ground for divine attention and protection, making forgetfulness equivalent to abandonment. This opening establishes the acute distress underlying the psalm: the speaker believes God has ceased to attend to his existence.

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