The author returns to the shocking transition from Psalm 44:8 to Psalm 44:9 (You have rejected…
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In some Psalms, the author touches on the miserable situations for which he or the people are to blame. But here, the author speaks as he did before in Psalm 44:4–8. This verse is again a sort of hinge: he verbalizes that he and the people have not forgotten God and have not denied the covenant. Therefore, the current punishment cannot be seen as a punishment that they would have earned. What a deep misery is shown in Psalm 44:9–16. Did we deserve this? Are we guilty of this? Here we may draw a line to our Saviour, the Mediator. He was entirely innocent. In everything he was pure and holy. Yet, mockery, opposition, misunderstanding, suffering, abandonment, and the martyr’s death on the cross befell him.
17 All this has come upon us, though we have not forgotten you, and we have not been false to your covenant.