Psalms 77:9 - Exposition

Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Can God, who forgets nothing and no one ( Isaiah 49:15 ), have forgotten his own nature, which is to be "merciful and gracious, long suffering, and abundant in goodness" ( Exodus 34:6 )? Assuredly not. The higher nature in the psalmist, as Professor Cheyne observes, expostulates with the lower one. Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Has he shut them up, "as in a closed hand" (Kay, Canon Cook)? (comp. Deuteronomy 15:7 ).