Has God forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His compassion? Selah.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
Has God [deliberately] abandoned or forgotten His graciousness? Has He in anger shut up His compassion? Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!
Has God forgotten how to be gracious? Has he angrily stopped up his compassion?”
The sons of Ephraim, who bend and shoot the bow, have been turned back in the day of battle.