“And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.”
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.
Church Fathers on Psalms 77:10
1. This Psalm's lintel is thus inscribed: “Unto the end, for Idithun, a Psalm to Asaph himself.” What “Unto the end” is, you know. Idithun is interpreted “leaping over those men,” Asaph is interpreted “a congregation.” Here therefore there is speaking “a congregation that leaps over,” in order that it may reach the End, which is Christ Jesus.. .. 2. “With my voice,” he says, “to the Lord I have cried” Psalm 76:1. But many men cry unto the Lord for the sake of getting riches…
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