Psalms 77:4-14

4 non sunt occultata a filiis eorum in generationem alteram narrantes laudes Domini et virtutes eius et mirabilia eius quae fecit

5 et suscitavit testimonium in Iacob et legem posuit in Israhel quanta mandavit patribus nostris nota facere ea filiis suis

6 ut cognoscat generatio altera filii qui nascentur et exsurgent et narrabunt filiis suis

7 ut ponant in Deo spem suam et non obliviscantur opera Dei et mandata eius exquirant

8 ne fiant sicut patres eorum generatio prava et exasperans generatio quae non direxit cor suum et non est creditus cum Deo spiritus eius

9 filii Effrem intendentes et mittentes arcus conversi sunt in die belli

10 non custodierunt testamentum Dei et in lege eius noluerunt ambulare

11 et obliti sunt benefactorum eius et mirabilium eius quae ostendit eis

12 coram patribus eorum quae fecit mirabilia in terra Aegypti in campo Taneos

13 interrupit mare et perduxit eos statuit aquas quasi utrem

14 et deduxit eos in nube diei et tota nocte in inluminatione ignis

Psalms 77:4-14 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.