The psalmist poses difficult questions: "Will the Lord spurn forever, and never again be favorable?" These rhetorical questions express the fear that God's withdrawal is permanent and definitive, that God has fundamentally rejected the relationship with the covenant people. The questions structure the remainder of the psalm, as the psalmist will work through these doubts by retrieving memories of God's past faithfulness. The theological concern here is about the constancy of God's covenant commitment: does God's anger exhaust God's capacity for mercy?

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