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Psalms 77:10
So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The psalmist speaks to himself during a crisis of faith, moving from questioning God’s compassion to resolving to recall His past deeds.
The words — חַלּוֹתִי (cha.loti) functions as the clause’s verb meaning “I am wounded” or “I grieve,” followed by הִיא (hi’) “it” and שְׁנוֹת (she.not) “the years,” before mentioning יְמִין עֶלְיוֹן (ye.min el.yon) “the right hand of the Most High.”
The thread — This theme of divine power appearing to shift appears in Exodus 15:6, where God’s right hand shatters the enemy, and in Job 42:3, where God’s counsel is questioned, while the psalmist’s alarm parallels the cry in Psalms 31:22.
Why it lands — The verse demands a reader confront the tension between perceived divine absence and the deliberate choice to remember past faithfulness.
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The Hebrew words
King James Version
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Cross-references
- Job 42:3 You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.
- Exodus 15:6 Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power; Your right hand, O LORD, has shattered the enemy.
- Psalms 31:22 In my alarm I said, “I am cut off from Your sight!” But You heard my plea for mercy when I called to You for help.
- Mark 9:24 Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe; help my unbelief!”
- Psalms 77:5 I considered the days of old, the years long in the past.
- Habakkuk 3:2 O LORD, I have heard the report of You; I stand in awe, O LORD, of Your deeds. Revive them in these years; make them known in these years. In Your wrath, remember mercy!
- Numbers 23:21 He considers no disaster for Jacob; He sees no trouble for Israel. The LORD their God is with them, and the shout of the King is among them.
- Deuteronomy 4:34 Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- Psalms 73:22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
- Lamentations 3:18 So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”