For the meaning of the title to this psalm, see the notes at the title
to Psalms 39:1. It purports, like the preceding ones, to be a psalm of
Asaph. See the notes in the title to Psalms 73. Nothing is...
BOOK II. PSS. XLII.- LXXII.
Psalms 42-83 are Elohistic, _i.e._ they use the word God (Elohim) and
avoid the proper name Yahweh, probably from motives of reverence. Here
and there, however, the name Y...
This Psalm breathes the spirit of Habakkuk, and uses language closely
resembling that of his -Prayer." As Habakkuk watched the advance of
the Chaldeans, and foresaw that they were to be the executione...
LXXVII.
The affliction out of which the mournful cry of this psalm rises is
presented in such general terms that there is no single indication by
which to refer it to one period more than another. As...
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 77
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 Ab...
_A.M. 2989. B.C. 1015._
Whoever was the author of this Psalm, he was manifestly in great
trouble when he composed it. What the trouble was does not appear; but
whatever it was, the sting of it lay in...