Psaume 77:6

6 Je pensais aux jours d'autrefois, aux années des temps passés.

Psaume 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.

Psaume 77:6 In-Context

4 Je me souvenais de Dieu, et je gémissais; je méditais, et mon esprit était abattu. Sélah (pause).

5 Tu avais retenu mes yeux dans les veilles; j'étais troublé, je ne pouvais parler.

6 Je pensais aux jours d'autrefois, aux années des temps passés.

7 Je me rappelais mes mélodies de la nuit; je méditais en mon cœur, et mon esprit examinait.

8 Le Seigneur rejettera-t-il pour toujours, ne sera-t-il plus désormais propice?