Psalms 77:6-16

6 I said,^[a]"Let me remember my ¹song in the night; let me ²meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search:

7 "Will the Lord ³spurn forever, and never again ⁴be favorable?

8 Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his ⁵promises at an end for all time?

9 ⁶Has God forgotten to be gracious? ⁷Has he in anger shut up his compassion?" Selah

10 Then I said, "I will appeal to this, to the years of the ⁸right hand of the Most High."^[b]

11 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will ⁹remember your wonders of old.

12 I will ponder all your ¹⁰work, and meditate on your ¹¹mighty deeds.

13 Your way, O God, is ¹²holy. ¹³What god is great like our God?

14 You are the God who ¹⁴works wonders; you have ¹⁵made known your might among the peoples.

15 You ¹⁶with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

16 When ¹⁷the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.

Psalms 77:6-16 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

• 1. See Psalms 42:8
• 2. Psalms 4:4
• 3. See Psalms 44:9
• 4. Psalms 85:1
• 5. [Romans 9:6]
• 6. [Isaiah 49:15]
• 7. [Habakkuk 3:2]
• 8. [Psalms 118:15]
• 9. ver. 5; Psalms 105:5
• 10. Psalms 90:16
• 11. Psalms 9:11
• 12. Psalms 73:17
• 13. See Psalms 35:10
• 14. See Psalms 72:18
• 15. Psalms 106:8
• 16. [Psalms 74:2; Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 9:29]
• 17. Psalms 114:3; Exodus 14:21; Joshua 3:15, 16; Habakkuk 3:10

Footnotes

• [a]. Hebrew lacks I said
• [b]. Or This is my grief: that the right hand of the Most High has changed