Salmos 77

1 Mi voz se eleva a Dios, y a El clamaré; mi voz se eleva a Dios, y El me oirá.

2 En el día de mi angustia busqué al Señor; en la noche mi mano se extendía sin cansarse; mi alma rehusaba ser consolada.

3 Me acuerdo de Dios, y me siento turbado; me lamento, y mi espíritu desmaya. (Selah)

4 Has mantenido abiertos mis párpados; estoy tan turbado que no puedo hablar.

5 He pensado en los días pasados, en los años antiguos.

6 De noche me acordaré de mi canción; en mi corazón meditaré; y mi espíritu inquiere.

7 ¿Rechazará el Señor para siempre, y no mostrará más su favor?

8 ¿Ha cesado para siempre su misericordia? ¿Ha terminado para siempre su promesa?

9 ¿Ha olvidado Dios tener piedad, o ha retirado con su ira su compasión? (Selah)

10 Entonces dije: Este es mi dolor: que la diestra del Altísimo ha cambiado.

11 Me acordaré de las obras del SEÑOR; ciertamente me acordaré de tus maravillas antiguas.

12 Meditaré en toda tu obra, y reflexionaré en tus hechos.

13 Santo es, oh Dios, tu camino; ¿qué dios hay grande como nuestro Dios?

14 Tú eres el Dios que hace maravillas, has hecho conocer tu poder entre los pueblos.

15 Con tu brazo has redimido a tu pueblo, a los hijos de Jacob y de José. (Selah)

16 Las aguas te vieron, oh Dios, te vieron las aguas y temieron, los abismos también se estremecieron.

17 Derramaron aguas las nubes, tronaron los nubarrones, también tus saetas centellearon por doquier.

18 La voz de tu trueno estaba en el torbellino, los relámpagos iluminaron al mundo, la tierra se estremeció y tembló.

19 En el mar estaba tu camino, y tus sendas en las aguas inmensas, y no se conocieron tus huellas.

20 Como rebaño guiaste a tu pueblo por mano de Moisés y de Aarón.

Salmos 77 Commentary

Chapter 77

The psalmist's troubles and temptation. (1-10) He encourages himself by the remembrance of God's help of his people. (11-20)

Verses 1-10 Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek him till we find him. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of business or amusement, but he sought God, and his favor and grace. Those that are under trouble of mind, must pray it away. He pored upon the trouble; the methods that should have relieved him did but increase his grief. When he remembered God, it was only the Divine justice and wrath. His spirit was overwhelmed, and sank under the load. But let not the remembrance of the comforts we have lost, make us unthankful for those that are left. Particularly he called to remembrance the comforts with which he supported himself in former sorrows. Here is the language of a sorrowful, deserted soul, walking in darkness; a common case even among those that fear the Lord, ( Isaiah 50:10 ) . Nothing wounds and pierces like the thought of God's being angry. God's own people, in a cloudy and dark day, may be tempted to make wrong conclusions about their spiritual state, and that of God's kingdom in the world. But we must not give way to such fears. Let faith answer them from the Scripture. The troubled fountain will work itself clear again; and the recollection of former times of joyful experience often raises a hope, tending to relief. Doubts and fears proceed from the want and weakness of faith. Despondency and distrust under affliction, are too often the infirmities of believers, and, as such, are to be thought upon by us with sorrow and shame. When, unbelief is working in us, we must thus suppress its risings.

Verses 11-20 The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God is holy in all his works. God's ways are like the deep waters, which cannot be fathomed; like the way of a ship, which cannot be tracked. God brought Israel out of Egypt. This was typical of the great redemption to be wrought out in the fulness of time, both by price and power. If we have harboured doubtful thoughts, we should, without delay, turn our minds to meditate on that God, who spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, that with him, he might freely give us all things.

Chapter Summary

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.