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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_;...
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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...
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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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_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...
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The Psalmist resolves to recall the exhibition of God's character in
the deliverance of His people from Egypt....
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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....
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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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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...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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_[Psalms 77:11]_ וָ֭ אֹמַר חַלֹּ֣ותִי הִ֑יא
שְׁ֝נֹ֗ות...
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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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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...
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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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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,...
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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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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...
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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,...
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_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...
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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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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....
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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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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...
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Psalms 77:10 said H559 (H8799) anguish H2470 (H8763) years H8141 hand
H3225 High H5945
This is -...
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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...
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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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_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...
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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 77:10 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...
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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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Deuteronomy 4:34; Exodus 15:6; Habakkuk 3:2; Job 42:3; Lamentatio
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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...