Psalms 77:21-31

21 ideo audivit Dominus et distulit et ignis accensus est in Iacob et ira ascendit in Israhel

22 quia non crediderunt in Deo nec speraverunt in salutare eius

23 et mandavit nubibus desuper et ianuas caeli aperuit

24 et pluit illis manna ad manducandum et panem caeli dedit eis

25 panem angelorum manducavit homo cibaria misit eis in abundantiam

26 transtulit austrum de caelo et induxit in virtute sua africum

27 et pluit super eos sicut pulverem carnes et sicut harenam maris volatilia pinnata

28 et ceciderunt in medio castrorum eorum circa tabernacula eorum

29 et manducaverunt et saturati sunt nimis et desiderium eorum adtulit eis

30 non sunt fraudati a desiderio suo adhuc escae eorum erant in ore ipsorum

31 et ira Dei ascendit in eos et occidit pingues eorum et electos Israhel inpedivit

Psalms 77:21-31 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.