“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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 74:11
1. This Psalm's Title is, “Of the Understanding of Asaph.” Asaph in Latin is translated congregation, in Greek Synagogue. Let us see what this Synagogue has understood. But let us understand firstly Synagogue: from thence we shall understand what the Synagogue has understood. Every congregation is spoken of under the general name of Synagogue: one both of beasts and of men may be called a congregation; but here there is no congregation of beasts when we heard…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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