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Psalms 77:13

in the sanctuary Better, in holiness. Cp. Exodus 15:11. All the plan and method of God's dealings in the world moves in the sphere of holiness, separate from all sin and imperfection, in accord with the perfection of His Nature. Cp. Habakkuk's appeal to God's holiness (Habakkuk 1:12.)

who&c. Who is a great god (El) like God (Elohim)? For Elohimno doubt originally stood Jehovahas in the passage of Moses" song, which the Psalmist has in mind (Exodus 15:11).

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See also Psalms 77:13 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 77:13. _THY WAY _- IS _IN THE SANCTUARY_] See Psalms 73:17. I must go to the sanctuary now to get _comfort_, as I went before to get _instruction_. What a mercy to have the privilege of...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY - Luther renders this, “O God, thy way is holy.” Prof. Alexander, “O God, in holiness is thy way.” DeWette, “O God, holy is thy way.” The word rendered “sanctuary”...

  • 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

    THE SANCTUARY. Only here, in God _'_. presence, is found peace and happiness. WHO... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_ (App-6), for emphasis. This is the cry resulting from occupation with God. Even the...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY— _O God, in holiness is thy way._ Houbigant and Mudge. That is, "Every thing which thou doest is conformable to thy sanctity, thy divinity: thy doing, thy conduct,...

  • 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

    Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? THY WAY, O GOD - i:e., Thy course of action. IS IN THE SANCTUARY - in the heavenly holy place (; ; ;...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    IN THE SANCTUARY] RV 'in holiness.'...

  • 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

    IN THE SANCTUARY. — Rather, _with the holy, i.e.,_ with “Israel,” the “saint” of God....

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:14]_ אֱ֭לֹהִים בַּ † קֹּ֣דֶשׁ דַּרְכֶּ֑ךָ...

  • 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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Thy way, O God, [is] (h) in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a (i) God as [our] God? (h) That is in heaven, to which we must ascend by faith, if we will know the ways of God. (i) He condemns all who...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Vessel. Literally, "bottle," like walls on either side._...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here is a devout reference to the history of the church in past times: and very ample are the pages in that history to give comfort to a troubled soul, when the Holy Ghost, as the Remembrancer of Chri...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    13._Thy ways, O God! are in the sanctuary. _Some translate _in holiness, _and they are led to do this, because it seems to them a cold and meagre form of expression to say, that _God’s ways are in his...

  • 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

    THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY,.... Or "in holiness" y; that is, is holy, so the Syriac version, and to which the Targum agrees. "O God, how holy are thy ways,'' see Psalms 145:17, or "in the s...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Thy way, O God, [is] in the sanctuary: who [is so] great a God as [our] God? Ver. 13. _Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary_] There it is only that I can get satisfaction about thy proceedings, Psalms...

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

    _Thy way, O God_ That is, thy doings, or, the course of thy providence; the various methods and causes of thy dealings with thy people; _is in the sanctuary_ Is there contained and declared. As the pr...

  • 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

    Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuary, literally, "in holiness"; everything that He does accords with the holiness of His essence. WHO IS SO GREAT A GOD AS OUR GOD? His perfections place Him above all s...

  • 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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THY WAY, i.e. thy doings, or the course of thy providence, which is oft called God's way; the various methods and causes of thy dealings with thy people. IN THE SANCTUARY; is there contained and decla...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:13 way H1870 God H430 sanctuary H6944 great H1419 God H410 God H430 Thy way - Psalms 27

  • 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

    _Thy, way, O God, is in the sanctuary._ GOD’S WAY REVEALED IN THE SANCTUARY I. God’s way of creation. II. His way of providence. III. The way of grace. IV. The way of human well-being. The light t...

  • 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 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

    Deuteronomy 32:31; Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 40:18; Isaiah 40:25; Isaia

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    In holiness — God is holy and just, and true in all his works....

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