The crisis of oppression creates the sense that God’s face is hidden and that relationship has been disrupted, but deliverance restores a vision of the true state of affairs, so that it seems as if God has once again revealed himself (cf. Ps 9:17).

PETER C. CRAIGIE AND MARVIN TATE, PSALMS 1-50, VOLUME 19: SECOND EDITION (WORD BIBLICAL COMMENTARY), 134.