Psalms 77:9-19

9 Has God forgotten to have mercy? has he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

10 And I said, This is my infirmity, but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

11 I remembered the works of JAH; therefore I shall remember thy wonders of old.

12 I meditated also on all thy works and spoke of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God, is in holiness; who is so great a God as our God?

14 Thou art the God that doest wonders; thou hast declared thy strength among the peoples.

15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid; the depths also were troubled.

17 The clouds poured out floods of waters; the heavens thundered; thy bolts of lightning also went forth.

18 The voice of thy thunder was all around; the lightnings lightened the world; the earth trembled and shook.

19 Thy way was in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps were not known.

Psalms 77:9-19 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.