Then I said, “It is my grief, That the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Parallel translations
- WEB Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- KJV And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- BSB So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
- NKJV And I said, “This is my anguish; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- NLT And I said, “This is my fate; the Most High has turned his hand against me.”
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Quick answer
Asaph resolves to appeal to the years of the right hand of the Most High, turning from doubt to remembrance.
Overview
This verse marks the decisive turning point of the psalm. Rather than dwell on his fears, Asaph chooses to recall the mighty deeds of God's powerful right hand. This intentional shift from feelings to God's proven faithfulness is the path out of despair, teaching believers to preach God's works to their troubled hearts.
Cross-references & the web
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- Job 42:3You asked, ‘Who is this who hides counsel without knowledge?’ therefore I have uttered that which I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I didn’t know.
- Exod 15:6Your right hand, Yahweh, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Yahweh, dashes the enemy in pieces.
- Mark 9:24Immediately the father of the child cried out with tears, “I believe. Help my unbelief!”
- Ps 31:22As for me, I said in my haste, “I am cut off from before your eyes.” Nevertheless you heard the voice of my petitions when I cried to you.
- Hab 3:2–13Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.
- Ps 77:5I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
- Ps 73:22I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.
- Deut 4:34Or has God tried to go and take a nation for himself from among another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Num 23:21–22He has not seen iniquity in Jacob. Neither has he seen perverseness in Israel. Yahweh his God is with him. The shout of a king is among them.
- Lam 3:18–23I said, “My strength has perished, along with my expectation from Yahweh.”
- Ps 116:11I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
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