The sons of Jacob and Joseph] Jacob represents the kingdom of Judah, and Joseph (father of Ephraim and Manasseh) the northern kingdom of Israel. The division of the nation is clearly hinted at: see on Psalms 80:1; Psalms 80:2.
Verse Psalms 77:15. _THE SONS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH._] "The sons which Jacob begat and Joseph nourished." says the _Chaldee_. The Israelites are properly called the sons of Joseph as well as of Jacob,...
THOU HAST WITH THINE ARM - That is, with strength or power, the arm being a symbol of strength. Exodus 6:6; Exodus 15:16; Psalms 10:15. REDEEMED THY PEOPLE - Thou did
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...
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....
JOSEPH. Because his sons were not the direct sons of Jacob. SELAH. Connecting the redemption from Egypt with the accomplishment of it as recorded in "the scriptures of truth". See App-66....
The Psalmist resolves to recall the exhibition of God's character in the deliverance of His people from Egypt....
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....
_Thou hast_&c. With a (strong) arm didst thou redeem thy people. Cp. Exodus 15:13; Exodus 15:16; Exodus 6:6; Psalms 74:2. the sons of Jacob and Jos
THE SONS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH— The people of the Jews are very properly styled the sons of _Joseph,_ as well as of _Jacob._ For as Jacob was, under God, the author of their being; so was Joseph the pre...
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...
Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. THOU HAST WITH THINE ARM REDEEMED THY PEOPLE - (.) THE SONS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH. Joseph is mentioned, as the hea...
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...
_[Psalms 77:16]_ גָּאַ֣לְתָּ בִּ זְרֹ֣ועַ עַמֶּ֑ךָ בְּנֵי...
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...
“THE GOD THAT DOEST WONDERS” Psalms 77:11 Go back to the past. Consider the manner in which God has stood by His saints in the days of old, in the years of ancient time. What He did for them He is pr...
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...
_Deep. Water was so abundant, and followed them in streams, 1 Corinthians x. 4. (Calmet) --- The first miraculous grant of water was at Horeb, the second at Cades, ver. 20. (Berthier)_...
Here is a devout reference to the history of the church in past times: and very ample are the pages in that history to give comfort to a troubled soul, when the Holy Ghost, as the Remembrancer of Chri...
15._Thou hast redeemed thy people by thy arm. _The Psalmist here celebrates, above all the other wonderful works of God, the redemption of the chosen people, to which the Holy Spirit everywhere throug...
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...
THOU HAST WITH THINE ARM REDEEMED THY PEOPLE,.... The people of Israel out of Egypt, which was typical of the redemption of the Lord's people by Christ, the arm and power of God: THE SONS OF JACOB AN...
Thou hast with [thine] arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. Ver. 15. _Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people_] viz. Out of the bondage of Egypt, that memorable mercy; b...
_Thou hast declared thy strength among the people_ By the mighty acts of it here following. _Thou hast redeemed thy people_ Namely, out of Egypt, after a long and hard bondage; which he here mentions...
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...
Thou hast with Thine arm redeemed Thy people, His uplifted, almighty arm providing deliverance to Israel, THE SONS OF JACOB AND JOSEPH, the latter being especially mentioned as bearers of the right of...
11-20 The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God...
REDEEMED THY PEOPLE, to wit, out of Egypt, after a long and hard bondage; which he here mentions to strengthen his faith in their present captivity. JACOB AND JOSEPH; whom he mentions, partly, as a mo...
Psalms 77:15 arm H2220 redeemed H1350 (H8804) people H5971 sons H1121 Jacob H3290 Joseph H3130 Selah H5542...
REDEEMED Hebrew, "goel," Redemption (Kinsman type). (_ See Scofield) - (Isaiah 59:20). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Deuteronomy 9:26; Deuteronomy 9:29; Exodus 6:6; Genesis 48:3; Isaiah