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A Prayer of Raw Honesty
The image of God pulling His hand back into His robe is a powerful metaphor for divine inaction. Commentators explain this isn't a sign of disrespect, but an honest, desperate plea from a suffering person. It validates the experience of feeling like God is distant or unconcerned when evil seems to be winning, and encourages believers to bring these raw feelings to God in prayer.
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Albert Barnes
On Psalms 74:11
18th Century
Theologian
Why do you withdraw your hand, even your right hand? — Why do you not stretch out your hand for our deliverance? The hand, especially the …
Charles Ellicott
On Psalms 74:11
19th Century
Bishop
Why withdrawest thou. —Literally, returning, i.e., into the ample folds of the Eastern robe. The poet is thinking of Exod…
John Calvin
On Psalms 74:11
16th Century
Theologian
How long will you withdraw your hand? It is easy to see what the prophet intends here, yet interpreters do not agree on the words. Some, b…
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John Gill
On Psalms 74:11
17th Century
Pastor
Why withdraw your hand, even that right hand ?
&c.] By which is meant the power of God; by which he made the heavens…
Matthew Henry
On Psalms 74:1–11
17th Century
Minister
This psalm appears to describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple by the Chaldeans. The deplorable case of the people of God, at the time,…