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

3.4 34.6 55.16,17 142.1-3

gave

116.1,2

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

55.4,5 61.2 142.2,3 143.4,5

Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

holdest

6.6 Esther 6.1 Job 7.13-15

I am

Job 2.13 6.3

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

4.4 Ecclesiastes 1.16

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

79.5 85.1,5

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Is his

Isaiah 27.11 Luke 16.25,26

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

Isaiah 40.27 49.14,15 63.15

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

104.34 143.5

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

27.4 63.2 68.25 73.17

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

Genesis 48.3-20

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.

68.8,9

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

Exodus 14.28 Romans 11.33

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