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Kretzmann's Popular Commentary

Psalms 77:4

Thou holdest mine eyes waking, holding the lids of his eyes open, depriving him of sleep on account of the misery which he felt; I am so troubled that I cannot speak, he is speechless from the excessive amount of his affliction. But his meditation now turns to the past.

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  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 77:4. _THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING_] Literally, _thou keepest_ _the watches of mine eyes _- my grief is so great that I cannot sleep. _I AM SO TROUBLED THAT I CANNOT SPEAK._] This sho...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING - literally, “Thou holdest the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “waking,” “eyelids.” Probably that is the true idea. The eyel...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 77 The Distressed Saint and His Comfort _ 1. The distress (Psalms 77:1)_ 2. The comfort (Psalms 77:11) This Psalm shows the distress of the saint in deepest exercise of soul. He earnestly s...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXVII. ISRAEL'S PRESENT DISTRESS AND PAST GLORY. Psalms 77:1. The present distress. PSALMS 77:1. WITH MY VOICE: _i.e._ with a loud voice. PSALMS 77:4. Past glory....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    EYES. eyelids; or, Thou keepest mine eyelids from closing....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Thou heldest open the lids of mine eyes: I was perplexed, and could not speak. The word rendered _waking_in A.V., _watching_in R.V., probably means the _guards_or _lids_of the eyes. The general sense...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In the vigils of the night he pondered on the history of the past, and asked himself with earnest questionings whether it were possible that God could have utterly cast off His people, and changed His...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES, &C.— _Thou didst keep the watches of mine eyes. I was troubled, and spake not._...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 77 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Comfort in Distress Obtained by the Study of a Song, ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 77:1-3, Introductoryshewing, by quotation of Language and Statement of Fact, that the Psa...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. -His sleepless nights, and his inability to speak, are attributed to the remembrance of the sad contrast which God's present des...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    BOOK 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of Psalms...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    MINE EYES WAKING] rather, 'the guards of my eyes.' The eyelids are kept from closing....

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS PSALMS 77 John sent people to ask Jesus, "Are you the One that will come, or must we look for someone else?" Jesus answered and said to them...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING. — Rather, _Thou hast closed the guards of my eyes — i.e.,_ my eyelids. The Authorised Version mistakes the noun. _guards,_ for a participle, and mistranslates it by the...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:5]_ אָ֭חַזְתָּ שְׁמֻרֹ֣ות עֵינָ֑י נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי וְ...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 77:1 THE occasion of the profound sadness of the first part of this psalm may be inferred from the thoughts which brighten it into hope in the second. These were the memories of past national d...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “DOTH HIS PROMISE FAIL?” Psalms 77:1 There is a strong resemblance between this psalm and Habakkuk 3:1. It may be divided at the Selahs. _The psalmist's anguish_, Psalms 77:1. It is well to give expr...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    This is a song of the healing of sorrow. It opens with the declaration of determination to cry to God, and then proceeds to explain the reason of this determination. Verse Psa 77:10 is the pivot on wh...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thou holdest mine eyes (c) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. (c) Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping....

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    There is somewhat very singular, and, at first reading, very strange, in these expressions. Doth the remembrance of God, as a gracious covenant God, tend to increase affliction? Surely every remembran...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _THE PSALM OF THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT_ ‘Thou holdest mine eyes waking.’ Psalms 77:4 I. THE POET WAS IN TROUBLE, ON WHAT OCCASION CANNOT NOW BE KNOWN, NOR CAN WE TELL WHO WROTE THE POEM, OR AT WHAT PERI...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    4._Thou hast held the watches of my eyes. _(288) This verse is to the same effect with the preceding. The Psalmist affirms that he spent whole nights in watching, because God granted him no relief. Th...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 77 we have spiritual deliverance and restored confidence. He cried with his voice to God, and God gave ear to him. To cry with the voice is more than to have a wish. A cry is the expression...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING,.... Or, "the watches", or rather "keepers of the eyes" m; the eyebrows, which protect the eyes; these were held, so that he could not shut them, and get any sleep; so R....

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Ver. 4. _Thou holdest mine eyes waking_] Thou holdest the watches of mine eyes, that is, mine eyebrows, saith the Chaldee, so that...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Thou holdest mine eyes waking_ By those bitter and continual griefs, and those perplexing and distressing thoughts and cares, which thou excitest within me. _I am so troubled that I cannot speak_ The...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-10 Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek him till we find him. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of busi...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING, by those sharp and continual griefs, and those perplexing and tormenting thoughts and cares, which from time to time thou stirrest up in me. I AM SO TROUBLED THAT I CANN...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:4 hold H270 (H8804) eyelids H5869 open H8109 troubled H6470 (H8738) speak H1696 (H8762) holde

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Psalms 77:1. _I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me._ The writer was in very deep trouble. The trouble forced from him a loud and bitter cry. His heart...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This «Psalm of Asaph» has a mournful tone in it; at times the writer is in the deeps; but we may be quite sure that be will end the Psalm cheerfully because he begins it with prayer. No matter what so...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    The Book of Psalms, though it is divinely inspired, is also marvelously human; it is everywhere instinct with life, and life in its most, sympathetic forms. However glad you are, there is always a Psa...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    This Psalm is headed «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun,» He was one of the great singers; there is opportunity given in the Psalms for each of the sinners to take his turn.; it does not do for any o...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Sorrowful complaints followed by encouragement by remembrance of God's former mighty deliverances. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The thoughts of unbelief can always be argued down if...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Title. _To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph._ There is an uncertainty, whether Jeduthun were a master of music, or whether the name designate an instrument, or some air or term of mus...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and He gave ear unto me._ THE FACULTY OF HUMAN THOUGHT The whole psalm may be used to illustrate the faculty of human thought. Throughou...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 77:1. This is a community lament. By referring to God’s “anger” (v. Psalms 77:9) the psalm acknowledges that the reason for the trouble may be

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 77:4 The agonizing question that keeps the singer awake at night (vv. Psalms 77:4) is whether God will SPURN his people fo

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription.—“To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph_.” Jeduthun was one of the leaders of sacred music in David’s time (1 Chronicles 16:41; 2 Chronicles 5:12). One of t...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION THIS psalm is the lament and expostulation with God of some afflicted person, perhaps Asaph, who speaks as the mouthpiece of his countrymen, complaining of Israel's apparent desertion by Go...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me (Psalms 77:1). Now notice in the seventy-seventh psalm how the first part of it is centered around I. You might fi...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Esther 6:1; Job 2:13; Job 6:3; Job 7:13; Psalms 6:6...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Waking — By continual grief....

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