Psalms 77:9-19

9 filii Effrem intendentes et mittentes arcus conversi sunt in die belli

10 non custodierunt testamentum Dei et in lege eius noluerunt ambulare

11 et obliti sunt benefactorum eius et mirabilium eius quae ostendit eis

12 coram patribus eorum quae fecit mirabilia in terra Aegypti in campo Taneos

13 interrupit mare et perduxit eos statuit aquas quasi utrem

14 et deduxit eos in nube diei et tota nocte in inluminatione ignis

15 interrupit petram in heremo et adaquavit eos velut in abysso multa

16 et eduxit aquam de petra et deduxit tamquam flumina aquas

17 et adposuerunt adhuc peccare ei in ira excitaverunt Excelsum in inaquoso

18 et temptaverunt Deum in cordibus suis ut peterent escas animabus suis

19 et male locuti sunt de Deo dixerunt numquid poterit Deus parare mensam in deserto

Psalms 77:9-19 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.