Psalms 77:50-60

50 viam fecit semitae irae suae non pepercit a morte animarum eorum et iumenta eorum in morte conclusit

51 et percussit omne primitivum in terra Aegypti primitias laborum eorum in tabernaculis Cham

52 et abstulit sicut oves populum suum et perduxit eos tamquam gregem in deserto

53 et deduxit eos in spe et non timuerunt et inimicos eorum operuit mare

54 et induxit eos in montem sanctificationis suae montem quem adquisivit dextera eius et eiecit a facie eorum gentes et sorte divisit eis terram in funiculo distributionis

55 et habitare fecit in tabernaculis eorum tribus Israhel

56 et temptaverunt et exacerbaverunt Deum excelsum et testimonia eius non custodierunt

57 et averterunt se et non servaverunt pactum quemadmodum patres eorum conversi sunt in arcum pravum

58 et in ira concitaverunt eum in collibus suis et in sculptilibus suis ad aemulationem eum provocaverunt

59 audivit Deus et sprevit et ad nihilum redegit valde Israhel

60 et reppulit tabernaculum Selo tabernaculum suum ubi habitavit in hominibus

Psalms 77:50-60 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.