Psalms 77:15-20

15 With power You redeemed Your people,[a] the descendants of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
16 The waters saw You, God. The waters saw You; they trembled. Even the depths shook.
17 The clouds poured down water. The storm clouds thundered; Your arrows flashed back and forth.[b]
18 The sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; lightning lit up the world.[c] The earth shook and quaked.[d]
19 Your way went through the sea, and Your path through the great waters,[e] but Your footprints were unseen.
20 You led Your people like a flock[f] by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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Psalms 77:15-20 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.

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