Matthew Poole and continuators on Psalms 77:10

10 And I said , This is my infirmity : but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High .

I thus answered these Objections:

These suspicions of God's Faithfulness and Goodness, proceed from the weakness of my Faith, and from the mistake of a diseased Mind.

Which words may be understood out of the following Verse, as other words frequently are in like Cases.

The years wherein God hath done great and glorious Works, which are oft asscribed to God's right hand, as Psal. 17. 7. and 20. 6. and 45. 4. and 118. 15. But the Word rendred years, doth also signifie changing, and accordingly this Verse is by other learned Interpreters, and may well be rendred otherwise without any such Supplement as is in our Translation, thus, And I said; This is my Affliction or Grievanc[illegible: 1+ letters], (The sum of all, and the chief cause of my Trouble and Anxiety is this) the Change of the right hand of the most High, that, that right hand which formerly hath done such great and wonderful things for his People, is at this time not onely hid in God's Bosom and not drawn forth for their defence, but is also stretched forth against them, and is the principal Cause of all our present Miseries. I could bear the malice and rage of our Enemies, from whom we could not expect better things, but that our gracious and Covenanted God should forsake and persecute his own People, this is that which makes it intolerable.

Marginal references: Psal. 102. 24. 25.