Psalms 77:15-20

15 You have by Your power 1redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and 2Joseph. Selah.
16 The 3waters saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.
17 The 4clouds poured out water; The skies 5gave forth a sound; Your 6arrows flashed here and there.
18 The 7sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The 8lightnings lit up the world; The 9earth trembled and shook.
19 Your 10way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints may not be known.
20 You 11led Your people like a flock By the hand of 12Moses and Aaron.

Images for Psalms 77:15-20

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.

Cross References 12

  • 1. Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 9:29; Psalms 74:2; Psalms 78:42
  • 2. Psalms 80:1
  • 3. Exodus 14:21; Psalms 114:3; Habakkuk 3:8, 10
  • 4. Judges 5:4
  • 5. Psalms 68:33
  • 6. Psalms 18:14
  • 7. Psalms 18:13; Psalms 104:7
  • 8. Psalms 97:4
  • 9. Judges 5:4; Psalms 18:7
  • 10. Isaiah 51:10; Habakkuk 3:15
  • 11. Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:19; Psalms 78:52; Psalms 80:1; Isaiah 63:11-13
  • 12. Exodus 6:26; Psalms 105:26

Footnotes 2

New American Standard Bible Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, California.  All rights reserved.