Psalms 77:6

6 I remembered how I used to sing praise to you in the night. I thought about it, and here is what I asked myself.

Psalms 77:6 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 77:6

I call to remembrance my song in the night
What had been an occasion of praising the Lord with a song, and which he had sung in the night seasons, when he was at leisure, his thoughts free, and he retired from company; or it now being night with him, he endeavoured to recollect what had been matter of praise and thankfulness to him, and tried to sing one of those songs now, in order to remove his melancholy thoughts and fears, but all to no purpose:

I commune with mine own heart;
or "meditate" ^F15 with it; looked into his own heart, put questions to it, and conversed with himself, in order to find out the reason of the present dispensation:

and my spirit made diligent search;
into the causes of his troubles, and ways and means of deliverance out of them, and what would be the issue and consequence of them; the result of all which was as follows.

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FOOTNOTES:

F15 (hxyva) "meditabor", Montanus; meditatus sum, V. L. "meditor", Junius & Tremellius; "meditabar", Piscator, Cocceius.

Psalms 77:6 In-Context

4 You kept me from going to sleep. I was so troubled I couldn't speak.

5 I thought about days gone by. I thought about the years of long ago.

6 I remembered how I used to sing praise to you in the night. I thought about it, and here is what I asked myself.

7 "Will the Lord turn away from us forever? Won't he ever show us his kindness again?

8 Has his faithful love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed for all time?