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Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary

Psalms 77:3

Yea, the thoughts of God, and of his infinite power, and truth, and goodness, which used to be very sweet and comfortable to me, were now matter of terror and trouble, because they were all engaged against me, and God himself, my only friend, was now very angry with me, and become mine enemy. I complained unto God in prayer. My spirit was overwhelmed; so far was I from finding relief by my complaints, that they increased my misery.

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See also Psalms 77:3 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 77:3. _MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED._] As the verb is in the _hithpael_ conjugation, the word must mean _my spirit was_ _overpowered in itself_. It purposed to involve itself in this calamit...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I REMEMBERED GOD - That is, I thought on God; I thought on his character, his government, and his dealings; I thought on the mysteries - the incomprehensible things - the apparently unequal, unjust, a...

  • 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

    COMPLAINED. communed [with myself]. MY SPIRIT. I (emphatic). Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. SELAH. Connecting this self-introspection with its sure result misery. See App-66....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist relates how, under the pressure of calamity, he could find no consolation even in prayer....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    When I would fain remember God, I was disquieted: When I would fain muse in prayer, my spirit fainted. The precise force of the tenses of the original is difficult to determine. The perfects in Psal...

  • 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

    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. I REMEMBERED GOD, AND WAS TROUBLED - rather, 'I will remember God, and will moan.' Note, Psalms 55:2, 'Make a n...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....

  • 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...

  • 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

    I REMEMBERED. — Better, “If I remember God I must sigh; I meditate, and my spirit faints.” OR, “Let me remember God, and sigh; I must complain, and my spirit faints.” The word rendered _overwhelmed_...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:4]_ אֶזְכְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְ אֶֽהֱמָיָ֑ה אָשִׂ֓יחָה...

  • 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

    I remembered God, and was (b) troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (b) He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Fathers. Christ might thus speak as man, and he enforces tradition in the strongest terms. (Berthier) --- Only some things were written. (Worthington) --- The most ancient and universal mode of instr...

  • 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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    3._I will remember God, and will be troubled. _The Psalmist here employs a variety of expressions to set forth the vehemence of his grief, and, at the same time, the greatness of his affliction. He co...

  • 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

    I REMEMBERED GOD, AND WAS TROUBLED,.... Either the mercy, grace, and goodness of God, as Jarchi; how ungrateful he had been to him, how sadly he had requited him, how unthankful and unholy he was, not...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Ver. 3. _I remembered God, and was troubled_] _Tumultuabar, fluctuando perstrepebam; _ for God seemed to be ang...

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

    _I remembered God, and was troubled_ Yea, the thoughts of God, and of his infinite power, wisdom, truth, and goodness, which used to be very sweet and consolatory to me, were now causes of terror and...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    I remembered God and was troubled, groaning at the thought that Jehovah, once his Helper, had now apparently forsaken him; I COMPLAINED, AND MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED, so overcome that he could no lon...

  • 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...

  • 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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:3 remembered H2142 (H8799) God H430 troubled H1993 (H8799) complained H7878 (H8799) spirit H7307 overwhelmed

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 77:3 There are two points of view under which we wish to present this subject: the strangeness of such an experience and some of the reasons that may account for it. I. The strangeness of such...

  • 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 Biblical Illustrator

    _I remembered God, and was troubled._ REMEMBERING GOD This was a very sad condition. Asaph must have felt that it was unnatural to entertain such gloomy thoughts of God. I. A test of our condition....

  • 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 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

    Jeremiah 17:17; Job 23:15; Job 23:16; Job 31:23; Job 6:4;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Troubled — Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed — So far was I from finding relief....

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