Psalms 77:15-20

15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah

16 The waters saw thee, O God; The waters saw thee, they were afraid: The depths also trembled.

17 The clouds poured out water; The skies sent out a sound: Thine arrows also went abroad.

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the whirlwind; The lightnings lightened the world: The earth trembled and shook.

19 Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known.

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock, By the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Psalms 77:15-20 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.