“Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?”
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?
Church Fathers on Psalms 77:7
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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