Psalms 77:64-72

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 77:64-72 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.