Psalms 77
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Chapter 77
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Verses:
The psalmist complains of deep distress, and temptations to despair, ver. 1 - 10.
He encourages himself to hope, by the remembrance of what God had done formerly, ver. 11 - 20.
To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A psalm of Asaph.
| 77:2 | Night - Which to others was a time of rest and quietness. |
| 77:3 | Troubled - Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed - So far was I from finding relief. |
| 77:4 | Waking - By continual grief. |
| 77:5 | The days - The mighty works of God in former times. |
| 77:6 | My song - The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night. |
| 77:7 | Cut off - His peculiar people. |
| 77:10 | I said - These suspicions of God's faithfulness proceed from the weakness of my faith. The years - The years wherein God hath done great and glorious works, which are often ascribed to God's right - hand. |
| 77:13 | In holiness - God is holy and just, and true in all his works. |
| 77:16 | Afraid - And stood still, as men astonished, do. |
| 77:17 | Poured - When the Israelites passed over the sea.Arrows - Hail - stones or lightnings. |
| 77:19 | Not known - Because the water returned and covered them. |
| 77:20 | Leddest - First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep. |