The psalmist reflects: "I consider the days of old, the years of long ago." This retrospective movement marks a turning point in the psalm: rather than continuing to articulate present pain, the psalmist turns toward remembrance of past divine acts. The phrase "days of old" specifically evokes the salvation history tradition—the repertoire of divine interventions in Israel's past that sustained faith through subsequent crises. This verse introduces the strategy that will dominate the latter part of the psalm: the retrieval of past experiences of God's faithfulness as a means of addressing present crisis.

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