Psalms 77:28-38

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

32 in omnibus his peccaverunt adhuc et non crediderunt mirabilibus eius

33 et defecerunt in vanitate dies eorum et anni eorum cum festinatione

34 cum occideret eos quaerebant eum et revertebantur et diluculo veniebant ad Deum

35 et rememorati sunt quia Deus adiutor est eorum et Deus excelsus redemptor eorum est

36 et dilexerunt eum in ore suo et lingua sua mentiti sunt ei

37 cor autem ipsorum non erat rectum cum eo nec fideles habiti sunt in testamento eius

38 ipse autem est misericors et propitius fiet peccatis eorum et non perdet eos et abundabit ut avertat iram suam et non accendet omnem iram suam

Psalms 77:28-38 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.