Psalms 77:1-10

1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.

2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; my sore bled in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

3 I remembered God and cried out; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

4 Thou didst hold my eyelids open; I am broken and did not speak.

5 I have considered the days from the beginning, the years of the ages.

6 I call to remembrance my songs of the night; I commune with my own heart, and my spirit made diligent search.

7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

8 Is his mercy gone for ever? does his word fail from generation to generation?

9 Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

10 And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

Psalms 77:1-10 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.