Psalm 77:11-20

11 I will remember the deeds of the Lord; yes, I will ¹remember your wonders of old.

12 I will ponder all your ²work, and meditate on your ³mighty deeds.

13 Your way, O God, is ⁴holy. ⁵What god is great like our God?

14 You are the God who ⁶works wonders; you have ⁷made known your might among the peoples.

15 You ⁸with your arm redeemed your people, the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

16 When ⁹the waters saw you, O God, when the waters saw you, they were afraid; indeed, the deep trembled.

17 The clouds poured out water; the skies ¹⁰gave forth thunder; your ¹¹arrows flashed on every side.

18 ¹²The crash of your thunder was in the whirlwind; ¹³your lightnings lighted up the world; the earth ¹⁴trembled and shook.

19 Your ¹⁵way was through the sea, your path through the great waters; yet your footprints ¹⁶were unseen. ^[a]

20 You ¹⁷led your people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 77:11-20 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.

Cross References

• 1. 77:11 ver. 5; Ps. 105:5
• 2. 77:12 Ps. 90:16
• 3. 77:12 Ps. 9:11
• 4. 77:13 Ps. 73:17
• 5. 77:13 See Ps. 35:10
• 6. 77:14 See Ps. 72:18
• 7. 77:14 Ps. 106:8
• 8. 77:15 [Ps. 74:2; Ex. 6:6; Deut. 9:29]
• 9. 77:16 Ps. 114:3; Ex. 14:21; Josh. 3:15, 16; Hab. 3:10
• 10. 77:17 [Ps. 68:33]
• 11. 77:17 See Ps. 18:14
• 12. 77:18 Ps. 104:7
• 13. 77:18 Ps. 97:4
• 14. 77:18 See Ps. 18:7
• 15. 77:19 Hab. 3:15
• 16. 77:19 See Ps. 36:6
• 17. 77:20 Ps. 78:52, 53; 80:1; Ex. 13:21; 14:19; Isa. 63:11, 12

Footnotes

• [a] 77:19 Hebrew 'unknown'