I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands.
I remember the days of old; I meditate on all thy works; I muse on the work of thy hands - namely, thy work in mightily delivering thy people from their oppressors. The remembrance of past deliverance only increases the pain of the present giving up of the Lord's servant to the persecutor (Psalms 143:3; Psalms 77:4-7: cf. Psalms 92:5).