Psalms 77:1-9

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 ran in the night and ceased not; my soul refused to be comforted.

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

4 Thou holdest mine eyes awake; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night; I commune with mine own heart, and my spirit makes diligent search.

7 "Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will He be favorable no more?

8 Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Doth His promise fail for evermore?

9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies?" Selah

Psalms 77:1-9 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.