Psalms 42:9 - Exposition

I will say unto God my Rock (comp. Psalms 18:1 ; Psalms 31:3 ). Why hast thou forgotten me? (see the comment on Psalms 13:1 ). God does not forget even when he most seems to forget (comp. Psalms 9:12 ; Psalms 37:28 ). As the event showed, he had not now forgotten David (see 2 Samuel 19:9-40 ). Why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Why am. I allowed to remain so long an exile, sorrowing and oppressed (comp. Psalms 43:2 )? Even to repentant sinners God's judgments are apt to seem too severe, too much prolonged, too grievous.