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How long, Yahweh? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?
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A Feeling, Not a Fact
Commentators explain that the feeling of being forgotten by God is a real and painful human experience, but it does not reflect theological reality. Scholars like John Gill clarify that God never actually forgets His people. The psalmist's cry comes from a place of deep anguish and a feeling of despair after prolonged suffering, not from a factual abandonment by God.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? - literally, “until when.” The psalmist breaks out into this cry in the midst of his troubles…
19th Century
Anglican
How long? ... for ever? —Compare Psalms 74:10; Psalms 79:5; Psalms 89:46. The double questi…
Baptist
When you and I have to spread our complaints before God, we are not the first who have done so. When we complain of God's forsaking us, we are not …
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16th Century
Protestant
How long, O Jehovah. It is very true that David was so greatly hated by most people, because of the slanders and false reports that had be…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever ? &c.] When God does not immediately deliver his people from their en…
God sometimes hides His face and leaves His own children in the dark concerning their assurance of belonging to Him: and this they take to heart mo…
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13th Century
Catholic
1. In the preceding psalm, the psalmist described the deceitfulness of his adversaries; here he begs God for a remedy against them. The titl…
