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Psalms 77:7-9

PSALM—NOTE ON Psalms 77:7 It does not offend God when his troubled people raise these questions. The answer is found in Exodus 34:6, which describes the enduring goodness of God toward his people. If God abounds in steadfast love, then it cannot cease. The key matter is the last line: has he done this in anger? God’s anger is a response to his people’s unfaithfulness, and will remain only if they refuse to repent.

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See also Psalms 77:7-9 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Psalms 77:7. _WILL THE LORD CAST OFF FOR EVER?_] Will there be no end to this captivity? Has he not said, "Turn, ye backsliders; for I am married unto you: I will heal your backsliding, and love...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WILL THE LORD CAST OFF FOR EVER? - This was the subject, and the substance, of his inquiry: whether it was a fair and just conclusion that God would show no mercy; would never be gracious again. Evide...

  • 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

    WILL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_, emphasizing the consequence of this introspection. It is continued through the whole of this member (verses: Psalms 77:7)....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    In the vigils of the night he pondered on the history of the past, and asked himself with earnest questionings whether it were possible that God could have utterly cast off His people, and changed His...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    "For age after age will the Lord cast off? And will he not once again shew favour?" The emphasis is on _for ever;_lit. _for ages_to come, which are compared with the ages past (Psalms 77:5); a differ...

  • 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

    Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? -The contrast of the past with the sad present suggests the question, Has God, as appearances would imply, completely cast off Hi...

  • 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

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  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    (7-9) The self-questionings here follow as they rise sigh after sigh in the poet’s heart. God’s silences have always been more appalling to the human spirit than even the most terrible of His manifest...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 77:8]_ הַֽ֭ לְ עֹולָמִים יִזְנַ֥ח ׀ אֲדֹנָ֑י...

  • 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...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

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  • 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

    7.and 8._Will the Lord cast off for ever? _The statements here made undoubtedly form a part of the searchings which engaged the Psalmist’s mind. He intimates that he was almost overwhelmed by a long s...

  • 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

    WILL THE LORD CAST OFF FOR EVER?.... The Syriac version of this, and the two following verses, is not by way of interrogation, but affirmation: "the Lord hath forgotten me for ever, nor will he", c. a...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Ver. 7. _Will the Lord cast off for ever?_] No, nor at all, though the extremity and length of the psalmist's grief put him upon th...

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

    _Will the Lord cast off for ever?_ “The psalmist now relates the process of his meditations, and of that controversy which arose in his heart between faith and distrust.” Most commentators suppose tha...

  • 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

    Will the Lord cast off forever? Can it be possible that He will utterly forsake the afflicted? AND WILL HE BE FAVORABLE NO MORE, never again showing His good pleasure in the afflicted soul trusting in...

  • 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

    WILL THE LORD CAST OFF his peculiar and chosen people? This doth not seem to agree either with God's nature, or with that everlasting covenant which he hath made with them....

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 77:7 Lord H136 off H2186 (H8799) forever H5769 will H3254 (H8686) favorable H7521 (H8800) the Lo

  • 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

    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

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  • The Biblical Illustrator

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  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

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  • The Pulpit Commentaries

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  • 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 23:24; Lamentations 3:31; Lamentations 3:32; Psalms 13:1;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Cut off — His peculiar people....

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