The Lord's anger was smoldering against Israel. They wondered why He had rejected them, or so it seemed to them.
So what do they do? They remind God that He had purchased the people, that He had redeemed them. Now why does this happen? It is not as though God had forgotten, not as though He needed reminding. God sometimes allows things to happen so that we remember.
The enemies of Israel had conquered the land and set up their standards in the holy places. God was mocked. So why was God seeming to do nothing?
Then the psalmist reminds us who God is. It cannot be that God actually has abandoned them forever. He is the Lord of all creation and is all powerful. So he calls on God to act and do something.
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