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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 77:18

This tempest is not particularly recorded in its proper place, yet it may well be gathered from what is said Exodus 14:24,25, and is in effect acknowledged by Josephus in his history. And this is no new thing in Scripture, for some circumstances of history omitted in the first and properest places to be supplied in following passages; whereof instances have been already given.

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  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THE VOICE OF THY THUNDER WAS IN THE HEAVEN - Compare the notes at Psalms 29:1. The word rendered “heaven” here - גלגל _galgal_ - means properly “a wheel,” as of a chariot, Isaiah 5:28;...

  • 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

    WAS IN THE HEAVEN. Hebrew. _galgal_. rolled along. THE. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "Thy". LIGHTENED. illumined....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The history of the past is the most convincing answer to these questions, the best cordial for his fainting spirits. Cp. Isaiah 63:7 ff....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The manifestation of God's sovereignty over nature in that supreme act of redemption....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _in the heaven_ The word _galgal_, derived from a root meaning _to roll_, was understood by the Jewish commentators to mean the _vault_or _circuit_of the heaven. More probably it should be rendered in...

  • 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

    The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. THE VOICE OF THY THUNDER WAS IN THE HEAVEN ( bagalgal (H1534)) - literally, 'in the whe...

  • 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

    HEAVEN] RV 'whirlwind.'...

  • 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

    IN THE HEAVENS. — Literally, _in the vault._ The Hebrew, _galgal,_ from _gâlal,_ “to roll,” has the same derivation as “vault” (_volutum,_ from _volvo_). It is strange that this rendering, which so we...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (16-20) The prominence given to Joseph is a feature common to the Asaphic psalm. With this magnificent lyric of the passage of the Red Sea comp. Habakkuk 3:10. The narrative in Exodus says nothing of...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:19]_ קֹ֤ול רַעַמְךָ֨ ׀ בַּ † גַּלְגַּ֗ל...

  • 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

    “THE GOD THAT DOEST WONDERS” Psalms 77:11 Go back to the past. Consider the manner in which God has stood by His saints in the days of old, in the years of ancient time. What He did for them He is pr...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Desires. Literally, "souls," as if they were dying for hunger, though they had plenty of manna, Numbers xi. 4. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    What a beautiful and sublime manner of expression is here, in the waters seeing God. The prophet hath a similar thought: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers?...

  • 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

    THE VOICE OF THY THUNDER WAS IN THE HEAVEN,.... Thunder is the voice of God, Job 37:5 this is heard in "the orb" b, or the air, so called, because spherical; the Targum is "the voice of thy thunder w...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Ver. 18. _The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven_] Heb. in the sphere or round orb...

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

    _The waters saw thee, O God_ They felt the visible effects of thy powerful presence. _They were afraid_ And stood still, as men or beasts astonished commonly do. _The clouds poured out water_ Namely,...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE TRIBULATION AND COMFORT OF THE RIGHTEOUS. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, at that time in charge of the Temple music, a psalm of Asaph, the psalm picturing the relief experienced by believers...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    The voice of Thy thunder was in the heaven, or "in the whirlwind"; THE LIGHTNINGS LIGHTENED THE WORLD; THE EARTH TREMBLED AND SHOOK. The entire passage seems to be an elaborate picture. of the mighty...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    11-20 The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:18 voice H6963 thunder H7482 whirlwind H1534 lightnings H1300 up H215 (H8689) world H8398 earth H776 trembl

  • 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...

  • 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 77:10 I WILL APPEAL... TO THE YEARS OF THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MOST HIGH. This section focuses on God’s great deeds of the past, especially in the exodus and in the wilderness. If G...

  • 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

    2 Samuel 22:14; 2 Samuel 22:8; Exodus 19:16; Exodus 19:18; Habakkuk 3:

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