Psalms 77:1-11

Remembering God’s Help for Israel

For the [music] director, on Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.

1 I cry out with my voice to God; with my voice to God, that he may hear me.

2 In the day I [have] trouble, I seek the Lord. At night my hand stretches out {continually}; my soul refuses to be comforted.

3 I remember God and I groan loudly; I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

4 You hold [open] my eyelids. I am troubled and cannot speak.

5 I think about [the] days from long ago, [the] years of ancient times.

6 I remember my song in the night. With my heart I meditate, and my spirit searches [to understand].

7 Will the Lord reject [us] forever, and will he never be pleased [with us] again?

8 Has his loyal love ceased forever? Is [his] promise ended throughout generations?

9 Has God forgotten to have compassion? Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

10 So I said, "This pierces me-- the right [hand] of the Most High [has] changed."

11 I will remember the deeds of Yah. Surely I will remember your wonders from long ago.

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Psalms 77:1-11 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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[a]. One of David's musicians (1 Chr 16:41)
[b]. The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
[c]. Or "make supplication to"
[d]. Literally "it does not grow weary"
[e]. Hebrew "word"
[f]. Or "this is my sickness"
[g]. A shortened form of "Yahweh"
[h]. Hebrew "wonder"