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Psalms 77:1-11
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I cry out to God; yes, I shout. Oh, that God would listen to me!
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When I was in deep trouble, I searched for the Lord. All night long I prayed, with hands lifted toward heaven, but my soul was not comforted.
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I think of God, and I moan, overwhelmed with longing for his help. Interlude
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You don’t let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray!
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I think of the good old days, long since ended,
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when my nights were filled with joyful songs. I search my soul and ponder the difference now.
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Has the Lord rejected me forever? Will he never again be kind to me?
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Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?
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Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he slammed the door on his compassion? Interlude
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And I said, “This is my fate; the Most High has turned his hand against me.”
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But then I recall all you have done, O LORD ; I remember your wonderful deeds of 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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