Psalms 77:53-72

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

61 et tradidit in captivitatem virtutem eorum et pulchritudinem eorum in manus inimici

62 et conclusit in gladio populum suum et hereditatem suam sprevit

63 iuvenes eorum comedit ignis et virgines eorum non sunt lamentatae

64 sacerdotes eorum in gladio ceciderunt et viduae eorum non plorabuntur

65 et excitatus est tamquam dormiens Dominus tamquam potens crapulatus a vino

66 et percussit inimicos suos in posteriora obprobrium sempiternum dedit illis

67 et reppulit tabernaculum Ioseph et tribum Effrem non elegit

68 et elegit tribum Iuda montem Sion quem dilexit

69 et aedificavit sicut unicornium sanctificium suum in terra quam fundavit in saecula

70 et elegit David servum suum et sustulit eum de gregibus ovium de post fetantes accepit eum

71 pascere Iacob servum suum et Israhel hereditatem suam

72 et pavit eos in innocentia cordis sui et in intellectibus manuum suarum deduxit eos

Psalms 77:53-72 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.