The critical turning point arrives: "And I said, 'It is my grief that the right hand of the Most High has changed.'" The psalmist acknowledges that the problem may lie not in God's change but in the psalmist's perception thereof: "It is my grief"—my sorrow, my wounded perspective—that tells me God has fundamentally altered. The phrase about the "right hand" of God evokes God's saving power (the right hand as the active instrument of deliverance), and the suggestion that it has changed represents the deepest possible despair. Yet by acknowledging this as the expression of grief rather than reality, the psalmist begins the movement toward correction.

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