Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not (m) known.
(m) For when you had brought over your people, the water returned to her course, and the enemies who thought to have followed them, could not pass through, (Exodus 14:28).
Verse Psalms 77:19. _THY WAY_ IS _IN THE SEA_] Thou didst walk through the sea, thy path was through a multitude of waters. _THY FOOTSTEPS ARE NOT KNOWN._] It was evident from the _effects_ that God...
THY WAY IS IN THE SEA - Probably the literal meaning here is, that God had shown his power and faithfulness in the sea (that is, the Red Sea), in delivering his people; it was there that his true char...
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....
IS. was. THE SEA. Not the sea-monster, the Ti'amat of Babylonian mythology, but the Red Sea mentioned above. See note on "The depths", Psalms 77:16. PATH. Hebrew text. "paths"; but some codices, wit...
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....
The manifestation of God's sovereignty over nature in that supreme act of redemption....
Thy way was in the sea, And thy paths in the great waters, And thy footsteps were not known. (R.V.) Cp. Habakkuk 3:15. The A.V. _path_follows the _Qrî_; R.V. _paths_the _Kthîbh_and the Ancient Vers...
THY WAY, &C.— _Thy way was through the sea, and thy path through the great waters, though thy footsteps were not seen._ "God walked before his people through the sea, though he left no footsteps of hi...
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...
Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. THY WAY (IS) IN THE SEA. The general inference from the particular case of the redemption of Israel at the...
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...
_Is.,_ ARE] RV 'was.. were.' FOOTSTEPS.. NOT KNOWN] when the waters had returned to their place....
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...
ARE NOT KNOWN. — “We know not, they knew not, by what precise means the deliverance was wrought; we know not by what precise track through the gulf the passage was effected. We know not; we need not k...
(16-20) The prominence given to Joseph is a feature common to the Asaphic psalm. With this magnificent lyric of the passage of the Red Sea comp. Habakkuk 3:10. The narrative in Exodus says nothing of...
_[Psalms 77:20]_ בַּ † יָּ֤ם דַּרְכֶּ֗ךָ _וּֽ֭_†_שְׁבִֽילְךָ_†...
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...
_Ill. Hebrew, "against," (Numbers xi.; Calmet) still distrusting in God's power. (Menochius)_...
What a beautiful and sublime manner of expression is here, in the waters seeing God. The prophet hath a similar thought: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers?...
19._Thy ways are in the sea. _The miracle which was wrought in drying up the Red Sea is here again described in different phraseology. What, properly speaking, refers to the Israelites is applied to G...
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...
THY WAY IS IN THE SEA,.... In the sea of Suph, as the Targum, the Red sea; it was the Lord that made the way in the sea for the Israelites, and went before them, and led them through it: AND THY PATH...
Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known. Ver. 19. _Thy way is in the sea, &c._] A way of thine own miraculous making. God usually goeth a way by him...
_Thy way is in the sea_, &c. Or rather, _was_, at that time; thou didst walk and lead thy people in untrodden paths; _and thy footsteps_ Or, _though thy footsteps were not seen_ God walked before his...
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...
Thy way is in the sea and Thy path in the great waters, the trackless deep being obliged to offer Him a road, AND THY FOOTSTEPS ARE NOT KNOWN, the full mysteries of His omnipotence and providence bein...
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...
IS IN THE SEA; or rather was at that time; thou didst walk and lead thy people in untrodden paths. ARE NOT KNOWN, because the waters suddenly returned and covered them....
Psalms 77:19 way H1870 sea H3220 path H7635 great H7227 waters H4325 footsteps H6119 known H3045 (H8738)...
Psalms 77:19 There must be mystery in religion a religion which lies between the finite and the Infinite. Take away mystery, and we should tear out a page of evidence. But there is more hiddenness abo...
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...
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...
_Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known._ THE PERPLEXING FORCE IN HUMAN LIFE I. There are evils in our way, unseen by us, from which it will be God’...
_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...
Exodus 14:28; Habakkuk 3:15; Nahum 1:3; Nahum 1:4; Nehemiah 9:11;...
Not known — Because the water returned and covered them....