Psalm 77:12-20

12 I will ¹meditate on all Your work And muse on Your deeds.

13 Your way, O God, is ²holy; ³What god is great like our God?

14 You are the ⁴God who works wonders; You have ⁵made known Your strength among the peoples.

15 You have by Your power ⁶redeemed Your people, The sons of Jacob and ⁷Joseph. Selah.

16 The ⁸waters saw You, O God; The waters saw You, they were in anguish; The deeps also trembled.

17 The ⁹clouds poured out water; The skies ¹⁰gave forth a sound; Your ¹¹arrows flashed here and there.

18 The ¹²sound of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The ¹³lightnings lit up the world; The ¹⁴earth trembled and shook.

19 Your ¹⁵way was in the sea And Your paths in the mighty waters, And Your footprints may not be known.

20 You ¹⁶led Your people like a flock By the hand of ¹⁷Moses and Aaron.

Psalm 77:12-20 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. Psalms 145:5
• 2. Psalms 63:2; Psalms 73:17
• 3. Exodus 15:11; Psalms 71:19; Psalms 86:8
• 4. Psalms 72:18
• 5. Psalms 106:8
• 6. Exodus 6:6; Deuteronomy 9:29; Psalms 74:2; Psalms 78:42
• 7. Psalms 80:1
• 8. Exodus 14:21; Psalms 114:3; Habakkuk 3:8, 10
• 9. Judges 5:4
• 10. Psalms 68:33
• 11. Psalms 18:14
• 12. Psalms 18:13; Psalms 104:7
• 13. Psalms 97:4
• 14. Judges 5:4; Psalms 18:7
• 15. Isaiah 51:10; Habakkuk 3:15
• 16. Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:19; Psalms 78:52; Psalms 80:1; Isaiah 63:11-13
• 17. Exodus 6:26; Psalms 105:26

Footnotes

• [a] Lit "arm"
• [b] Lit "went"