Psalms 77:44-54

44 et convertit in sanguine flumina eorum et imbres eorum ne biberent

45 misit in eos cynomiam et comedit eos et ranam et disperdit eos

46 et dedit erugini fructus eorum et labores eorum lucustae

47 et occidit in grandine vineam eorum et moros eorum in pruina

48 et tradidit grandini iumenta eorum et possessionem eorum igni

49 misit in eos iram indignationis suae indignationem et iram et tribulationem inmissionem per angelos malos

50 viam fecit semitae irae suae non pepercit a morte animarum eorum et iumenta eorum in morte conclusit

51 et percussit omne primitivum in terra Aegypti primitias laborum eorum in tabernaculis Cham

52 et abstulit sicut oves populum suum et perduxit eos tamquam gregem in deserto

53 et deduxit eos in spe et non timuerunt et inimicos eorum operuit mare

54 et induxit eos in montem sanctificationis suae montem quem adquisivit dextera eius et eiecit a facie eorum gentes et sorte divisit eis terram in funiculo distributionis

Psalms 77:44-54 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.