“Why withdrawest thou thy hand, even thy right hand? pluck it out of thy bosom.”
The rhetorical question asking why God withholds a hand and keeps a right hand concealed articulates confusion about God's apparent inaction. The reference to the right hand indicates the hand that normally accomplishes divine acts. The withholding of this hand represents the apparent passivity of God. This verse expresses frustration at God's seeming refusal to act.
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