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Psalms 77:10-20

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 God did these things for his people before (deeds, wonders, work, and mighty deeds, vv. Psalms 77:11) to make known his might among the peoples (v. Psalms 77:14), he certainly has the power to do them again. This song helps God’s people to refresh their hope and renew their commitment to being a holy people. They are to be an attractive advertisement of the true God to the rest of the world.

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See also Psalms 77:10-20 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 77:10. _AND I SAID, THIS_ IS _MY INFIRMITY_] The Hebrew is very obscure, and has been differently translated: ואמר חלותי היא שנות ימימן עליון _vaomar challothi hi shenoth yemin_ _elyon_;...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    AND I SAID, THIS IS MY INFIRMITY - The meaning of this phrase is not, as would appear from our translation, that his reflections on the subject were to be traced to his weakness, or were a proof of we...

  • 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

    RIGHT HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. THE MOST HIGH. Hebrew. _Elyon._ App-4....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _And I said_introduces the argument by which the Psalmist thrusts aside the possibility of an affirmative answer to his questionings. But the rest of the verse is obscure, and has been very variously...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The Psalmist resolves to recall the exhibition of God's character in the deliverance of His people from Egypt....

  • 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....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 630 DESPONDENCY DEPICTED AND REPROVED Psalms 77:7. _Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore...

  • 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

    And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High. -This is the transition point to hope. The recalling of past deliverances vouchsafed by God, whic...

  • 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

    THIS _is_ MY INFIRMITY] The Psalmist here recognises that his doubts are due to his own weakness and not to any change in God. 10B. RM reads, 'That the right hand of the Most High doth change,' which...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    AND I SAID... — The word rendered “infirmity” may, by derivation, mean “wounding” or “piercing.” So Symmachus, “my wound;” Aquila, “my sickness.” Gesenius says, “that which makes my sickness.” If we k...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:11]_ וָ֭ אֹמַר חַלֹּ֣ותִי הִ֑יא שְׁ֝נֹ֗ות...

  • 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

    And I said, This [is] my (g) infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High. (g) Though I first doubted of my life, yet considering that God had his years, that is, cha...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    These are blessed inquiries, and all tend to lead the soul to God, and to induce the happy issue in which the questions end. No, God hath not cast off his people whom he foreknew. God hath not, God wi...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    10._And I said, My death, the years of the right hand, etc. _This passage has been explained in various ways. Some deriving the word חלותי, _challothi, _from חלה _, chalah, _which signifies _to kill,...

  • 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

    AND I SAID, THIS IS MY INFIRMITY,.... Referring either to what he had said in the preceding verses; and which is to be considered either as checking and correcting himself for what he had said, and ac...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    And I said, This [is] my infirmity: [but I will remember] the years of the right hand of the most High. Ver. 10. _And I said, This is my infirmity_] My frailty and folly. Here he begins to recollect,...

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

    _And I said_ I thus answered these objections; _This is my infirmity_ These suspicions of God's faithfulness and goodness proceed from the weakness of my faith, and from the mistake of a diseased mind...

  • 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

    And I said, This is my infirmity, the suffering which was his lot in life; BUT I WILL REMEMBER THE YEARS OF THE RIGHT HAND OF THE MOST HIGH, when the almighty power of Jehovah sustained him....

  • 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

    I SAID; I thus answered these objections. THIS IS MY INFIRMITY; these suspicions of God's faithfulness and goodness proceed from the weakness of my faith, and from the mistake of a diseased mind. BUT...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:10 said H559 (H8799) anguish H2470 (H8763) years H8141 hand H3225 High H5945 This is -...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 77:10 There are three kinds of speaking in this Psalm: speaking to God, speaking to our fellows, and speaking to one's self. I. To how many of our thoughts, and feelings, and spiritual utteran...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Psalms 77:7 The moral to be drawn from this Psalm is that in all troubles and adversities it is our own fault if we have not a light to guide and cheer us, and that the true remedy against despondenc...

  • 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...

  • 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 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

    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...

  • 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 said, This is my infirmity._ RELIGIOUS DEPRESSION I. The symptoms of religious depression. A settled depression of mind, in a perplexing debility and agitation of spirit, an apprehension of God’s...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • 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 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 4:34; Exodus 15:6; Habakkuk 3:2; Job 42:3; Lamentatio

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    I said — These suspicions of God's faithfulness proceed from the weakness of my faith. The years — The years wherein God hath done great and glorious works, which are often ascribed to God's right — h...

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