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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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WILL... ? Figure of speech _Erotesis_, emphasizing the consequence of
this introspection. It is continued through the whole of this member
(verses: Psalms 77:7)....
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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...
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"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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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“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...
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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...
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_That, &c. This was the end of all the laws and monuments of religion,
(Calmet) to increase our confidence, (Worthington) gratitude, and
observance of our duty. (Haydock)_...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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Psalms 77:7 Lord H136 off H2186 (H8799) forever H5769 will H3254
(H8686) favorable H7521 (H8800)
the Lo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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_Will the Lord cast off for ever?_
and will He be favourable no more?
AGAINST EXCESSIVE GRIEF
I. The grief which nature dictates, and which, in moderation, the God
of nature does not prohibit, becom...
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_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...
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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
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 77:4 The agonizing question that keeps the
singer awake at night (vv. Psalms 77:4) is whether God will SPURN his
people fo
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Jeremiah 23:24; Lamentations 3:31; Lamentations 3:32; Psalms 13:1;...
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Cut off — His peculiar people....