Psalms 77:8-18

8 Is his love gone forever? Has he stopped speaking for all time?

9 Has God forgotten mercy? Is he too angry to pity us?"Selah

10 Then I say "This is what makes me sad: For years the power of God Most High was with us."

11 I remember what the Lord did; I remember the miracles you did long ago.

12 I think about all the things you did and consider your deeds.

13 God, your ways are holy. No god is as great as our God.

14 You are the God who does miracles; you have shown people your power.

15 By your power you have saved your people, the descendants of Jacob and Joseph.Selah

16 God, the waters saw you; they saw you and became afraid; the deep waters shook with fear.

17 The clouds poured down their rain. The sky thundered. Your lightning flashed back and forth like arrows.

18 Your thunder sounded in the whirlwind. Lightning lit up the world. The earth trembled and shook.

Psalms 77:8-18 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.