Chapter 77
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
A. M. cir. 3463. B.C. cir. 541. (Title.) Jeduthun
39:1 62:1 *titles; 1 Chronicles 16:41,42 25:3,6
A Psalm
This Psalm is allowed by the best judges to have been written during the Babylonian captivity.
of Asaph
or, for Asaph.
50:1 *title
I cried
gave
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
In the
18:6 50:15 88:1-3 102:1,2 130:1,2 Genesis 32:7-12,28 2 Kings 19:3,4,15-20 Isaiah 26:9,16 Jonah 2:1,2 2 Corinthians 12:7,8 Hebrews 5:7
my
6:2,3 38:3-8 2 Chronicles 6:28 Isaiah 1:5,6 Hosea 5:13 6:1
sore
Heb. hand. my soul.
Genesis 37:35 Esther 4:1-4 Proverbs 18:14 Jeremiah 31:15 John 11:31
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
I remembered
Job 6:4 23:15,16 31:23 Jeremiah 17:17
I complained
88:3-18 102:3-28 Job 7:11 Lamentations 3:17,39
spirit
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
holdest
I am
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
74:12-18 143:5 Deuteronomy 32:7 Isaiah 51:9 63:9-15 Micah 7:14,15
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
my song
42:8 Job 35:10 Habakkuk 3:17,18 Jonah 1:2 Acts 16:25
commune
and
139:23,24 Job 10:2 Lamentations 3:40 1 Corinthians 11:28-32
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
the Lord
13:1,2 37:24 74:1 89:38,46 Jeremiah 23:24-26 Lamentations 3:31,32 Romans 11:1,2
and will
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Is his
doth
Numbers 14:34 23:19 Jeremiah 15:18 Romans 9:6
for evermore
Heb. to generation and generation.
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
God
shut up
Luke 13:25-28 Romans 11:32 *marg:; 1 John 3:17
And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
This is, etc
Or, as Dr. Waterland renders, "This my affliction is a change of the right hand of the Most High," i.e., it proceeds from a change of God's conduct towards me. De Dieu renders, Precari, hoc meum est; mutare dextram Altissimi: "To pray, this is my business: to change the right hand of the Most High." I can do nothing else than pray: God is the Ruler of events. Mr. N. M. Berlin translates, Dolere meum hoc est: mutare est dextrÊ Altissimi: "To grieve is my portion: to change (my condition) belongs to the right hand of the Most High."
31:22 73:22 116:11 Job 42:3 Lamentations 3:18-23 Mark 9:24
the years
5 Exodus 15:6 Numbers 23:21,22 Deuteronomy 4:34 Habakkuk 3:2-13
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
10 28:5 78:11 111:4 1 Chronicles 16:12 Isaiah 5:12
I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
meditate
talk
71:24 105:2 145:4,11 Deuteronomy 6:7 Luke 24:14-32
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
Thy way
who
89:6-8 Exodus 15:11 Deuteronomy 32:31 Isaiah 40:18,25 46:5
Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
the God
72:18 86:10 105:5 136:4 Exodus 15:11 Revelation 15:3
thou hast
Exodus 13:14 15:6 Joshua 9:9,10 Isaiah 51:9 52:10 Daniel 3:29 6:27
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
with
136:11,12 Exodus 6:6 Deuteronomy 9:26,29 Isaiah 63:9
the sons
The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
114:3-6 Exodus 14:21 Joshua 3:15,16 Habakkuk 3:8-10,15
The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
poured out like water
Heb. were poured forth with water.
thine
18:14 144:6 2 Samuel 22:15 Habakkuk 3:11
The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
voice
29:3-9 Exodus 19:16 Job 37:1-5 Revelation 11:19
lightnings
97:4 Habakkuk 3:4 Revelation 18:1
earth
Exodus 19:18 2 Samuel 22:8,14 Matthew 27:51 28:2 Revelation 20:11
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
way
29:10 97:2 Nehemiah 9:11 Nahum 1:3,4 Habakkuk 3:15
footsteps
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
78:52 80:1 Exodus 13:21 14:19 Isaiah 63:11,12 Hosea 12:13 Acts 7:35,36