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Verse Psalms 77:2. _MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, AND CEASED NOT_] This
is a most unaccountable translation; the literal meaning of ידי
נגרה _yadi niggerah_, which we translate _my sore ran_, is, _my
han...
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IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE I SOUGHT THE LORD - Compare the notes at
Psalms 50:15. This trouble may have been either mental or bodily; that
is, it may have arisen from some form of disease, or it may hav...
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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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THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ altered Jehovah
to Adonai. See App-32.
MY SORE RAN. Hebrew hand was outstretched: i.e. in prayer.
CEASED NOT: i.e. to be outstretched.
MY SOUL....
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The Psalmist relates how, under the pressure of calamity, he could
find no consolation even in prayer....
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(Thus) in the day of my distress I sought the Lord:
My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not;
My soul refused to be comforted....
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MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, &C.— _My hand was spread,_ or _stretched
out in the night, and remitted not._ Houbigant. Green renders it, _In
the night mine eye trickled down without ceasing._...
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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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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night,
and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
I SOUGHT THE LORD - rather, 'I seek the Lord.'
MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, AND...
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77:2 out (b-15) Or 'was poured out,' or, 'my sore ran.'...
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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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MY SORE RAN] RV 'my hand was stretched out,' in the attitude of
prayer....
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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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MY SORE RAN ... — The text of this verse is evidently faulty. As it
stands it is unintelligible. _My hand was poured out and grew not
dull_ (like a corpse).
The LXX. and Vulg. have, “with my hands aga...
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_[Psalms 77:3]_ בְּ יֹ֥ום צָרָתִי֮ אֲדֹנָ֪י
דָּ֫רָ֥שְׁתִּי...
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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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Propositions. Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears, that
the historical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm,
were deep and mysterious; as being figures of great truths
appert...
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2._I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble. _In this verse he
expresses more distinctly the grievous and hard oppression to which
the Church was at that time subjected. There is, however, some
ambi...
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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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IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE I SOUGHT THE LORD,.... Not the creature, for
help, and creature amusements to drive away trouble, but the Lord, in
private, by prayer and supplication; a time of trouble is a...
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In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night,
and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
Ver. 2. _In the day of my trouble_] The time of affliction is the time
of suppli...
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_In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord_ Being afflicted, he
prayed, James 5:13, and being in an agony he prayed the more
fervently: _he cried unto God._ He did not apply to the diversion of
busin...
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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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In the day of my trouble, at the time when affliction beset him
strongly, I SOUGHT THE LORD, the All-powerful; MY SORE RAN IN THE
NIGHT AND CEASED NOT, rather, my hand is stretched out in the night,
w...
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MY SORE:
_ Heb._ my hand...
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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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MY SORE RAN: _the hand_ in the Hebrew tongue, and Scripture use, is
oft put for a blow or stroke given by the hand. Heb. _My hand_, or
_hands_, (the singular number being frequently put for the plural...
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Psalms 77:2 day H3117 trouble H6869 sought H1875 (H8804) Lord H136
hand H3027 out H5064 (H8738) night...
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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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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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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 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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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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_My soul refused to be comforted._
REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED
I. When a man’s soul refuses to be comforted, possibly he may be
right. He may have a great spiritual sorrow, and some one, who does
not at...
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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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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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2 Chronicles 6:28; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 12:8; 2 Kings
19:15;...
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Night — Which to others was a time of rest and quietness....