Psalms 77:1-11

Comfort in Trouble from Recalling God's Mighty Deeds.

1 My voice rises to God, and I will ¹cry aloud; My voice rises to God, and He will hear me.

2 In the ²day of my trouble I sought the Lord; ³In the night my ⁴hand was stretched out without weariness; My soul ⁵refused to be comforted.

3 When I remember God, then I am ⁶disturbed; When I ⁷sigh, then ⁸my spirit grows faint. Selah.

4 You have held my eyelids * open; I am so troubled that I ⁹cannot speak.

5 I have considered the ¹⁰days of old, The years of long ago.

6 I will remember my ¹¹song in the night; I ¹²will meditate with my heart, And my spirit ponders:

7 Will the Lord ¹³reject forever? And will He ¹⁴never be favorable again?

8 Has His ¹⁵lovingkindness ceased forever? Has His ¹⁶promise come to an end forever?

9 Has God ¹⁷forgotten to be gracious, Or has He in anger withdrawn His ¹⁸compassion? Selah.

10 Then I said, "¹⁹It is my grief, That the ²⁰right hand of the Most High has changed."

11 I shall remember the ²¹deeds of the LORD; Surely I will ²²remember Your wonders of old.

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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

Cross References 22

1. Psalms 3:4; Psalms 142:1
2. Psalms 50:15; Psalms 86:7
3. Psalms 63:6; Isaiah 26:9
4. Job 11:13; Psalms 88:9
5. Genesis 37:35
6. Psalms 42:5, 11; Psalms 43:5
7. Psalms 55:2; Psalms 142:2
8. Psalms 61:2; Psalms 143:4
9. Psalms 39:9
10. Deuteronomy 32:7; Psalms 44:1; Psalms 143:5; Isaiah 51:9
11. Psalms 42:8
12. Psalms 4:4
13. Psalms 44:9
14. Psalms 85:1, 5
15. Psalms 89:49
16. 2 Peter 3:9
17. Isaiah 49:15
18. Psalms 25:6; Psalms 40:11; Psalms 51:1
19. Psalms 31:22; Psalms 73:14
20. Psalms 44:2, 3
21. Psalms 105:5; Psalms 143:5
22. Psalms 105:5; Psalms 143:5

Footnotes 8

[a]. Lit "and did not grow numb"
[b]. "Selah" may mean: "Pause, Crescendo" or "Musical interlude"
[c]. Lit "searched"
[d]. Lit "word"
[e]. Lit "from generation to generation"
[f]. Lit "shut up"
[g]. Or "infirmity, the years of the right hand of the Most High"
[h]. Heb YAH