Psalms 77:14-20

14 You are the God who does miracles. You show your power among the nations.

15 With your mighty arm you set your people free. You set the children of Jacob and Joseph free. "Selah"

16 God, the water of the Red Sea saw you. It saw you and boiled up. The deepest waters were stirred up.

17 The clouds poured down rain. The skies rumbled with thunder. Lightning flashed back and forth like arrows.

18 Your thunder was heard in the windstorm. Your lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

19 Your path led through the Red Sea. You walked through the mighty waters. But your footprints were not seen.

20 You led your people like a flock. You led them by the hands of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 77:14-20 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.