Psalms 77:34-44

34 cum occideret eos quaerebant eum et revertebantur et diluculo veniebant ad Deum

35 et rememorati sunt quia Deus adiutor est eorum et Deus excelsus redemptor eorum est

36 et dilexerunt eum in ore suo et lingua sua mentiti sunt ei

37 cor autem ipsorum non erat rectum cum eo nec fideles habiti sunt in testamento eius

38 ipse autem est misericors et propitius fiet peccatis eorum et non perdet eos et abundabit ut avertat iram suam et non accendet omnem iram suam

39 et recordatus est quia caro sunt spiritus vadens et non rediens

40 quotiens exacerbaverunt eum in deserto in ira concitaverunt eum in inaquoso

41 et conversi sunt et temptaverunt Deum et Sanctum Israhel exacerbaverunt

42 non sunt recordati manus eius die qua redemit eos de manu tribulantis

43 sicut posuit in Aegypto signa sua et prodigia sua in campo Taneos

44 et convertit in sanguine flumina eorum et imbres eorum ne biberent

Psalms 77:34-44 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.