Psalms 77 and 78 both peer intently into the past, even to the point of employing the same vocabulary to access it, to render it recoverable by defining it with words.
Yet the two poets see a different picture. The author of the seventy-seventh psalm views a glorious past from within the painful longings of a present in which God has absented himself. Indeed, his pathos-filled language dares to suggest that God has changed. The deity of those good years no longer dwells with his people:
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