Psalm 77:19
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16
When the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; the very deep trembled.
17
The clouds poured out water; the skies thundered; your arrows flashed on every side.
18
The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; your lightnings lit up the world; the earth trembled and shook.
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Your way was through the sea, your path, through the mighty waters; yet your footprints were unseen.
20
You led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
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Psalm 77:16-20 Meaning and Commentary
To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. Jeduthun was the name of the chief musician, to whom this psalm was inscribed and sent; see 1 Chronicles 25:1, though Aben Ezra takes it to be the first word of some song, to the tune of which this was sung; and the Midrash interprets it of the subject of the psalm, which is followed by Jarchi, who explains it thus, "concerning the decrees and judgments which passed upon Israel;" that is, in the time of their present captivity, to which, as he, Kimchi, and Arama think, the whole psalm belongs. Some interpreters refer it to the affliction of the Jews in Babylon, so Theodoret; or under Ahasuerus, or Antiochus; and others to the great and last distress of the church under antichrist; though it seems to express the particular case of the psalmist, and which is common to other saints.
Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright 1989, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
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