psalm 77 commentary

- S. I. He feared that never again would he see the favor of God, the mercy of God, and the fulfillment of God’s promise. I will also meditate on all Your work, It is our duty to search for comfort, and not in sullen indolence yield to despair.” (Spurgeon). The infinite patience and gentleness towards us seems to search us through and through. Most often when the believer cries out to God and senses he or she is heard, it brings the peaceful assurance of faith. Selah. Take any biography given in the Old Testament. And night estimates of sin are very seldom true ones. God redeemed his people from their afflictions in Egypt; therefore he will redeem them from their present affliction. IT COMFORTS US TO SET GOD'S DEALINGS ONE OVER AGAINST ANOTHER. How would faith be educated and developed but for the demands made upon it by the trials of life? IT IS SEES THERE. The depths also trembled. His own frailty. 2. PSALM 76 AND 77 6, When and where and how will God defend “the meek of the earth”? Everything is prepared for, related to something else, and having its characteristic influences and results. There we get light sufficient, and, better still, the acquiescent, submissive mind, that learns to rest in the Lord and wait patiently lee him (cf. If God no longer "remembers" them, it must be wrong for us to do so. And spiritually, we see this here. 10. There is variety in God's working, but no variety in him. d. I will remember…I will also meditate…and talk of Your deeds: Asaph presented a three-step process to encouragement and healing. God's power and purpose. 1. forever, Ps. Selah. “The notation ‘For the director of music’ [Chief Musician] appears in fifty-five psalms (also in Habakkuk 3:19) and serves probably as a musical addition, marking the psalm to be a part of temple worship or to be recited by the leader of the choir.” (Willem VanGemeren), Jeduthun (mentioned also in the titles of Psalm 39 and 62) was one of the musicians appointed by David to lead Israel’s public worship (1 Chronicles 16:41; 25:1-3). In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord; ; night dangers - need of finding sheep cotes, gathering brushwood to top the hurriedly raised wall of the fold, watching against wild animals and robbers. Illustrate from the case of David, who lost the sense of God, lost his hope in God, filled his soul with questionings and fears, when he had stepped aside from the ways of righteousness and good self-restraint. things our ancestors have recounted to us. The great thing is for the soul to master itself. So we have a large liberty, a measure of free will; but it has always to he kept within the Shepherd's lines. But I will remember: In the midst of the painful anguish between what he believed and what he felt, Asaph spoke to himself and declared what he would do. The cause of lying awake at night is usually mental anxiety and distress; burdens on the mind rather than pains in the body. A PSALM." 3. The monastic orders are quite familiar with the psalmist’s seeking, questioning mode. 77 with Ps. a. "In the Day of Trouble," Melissa Bane Sevier, Contemplative Viewfinder, 2016. watches - in thinking on God and his ways, as he lay upon his bed, he stretched out his hand in fervent prayer to God. Perhaps this was some of what Paul felt regarding his thorn in the flesh described in 2 Corinthians 12:7-10. It was meet that another leader of the psalmody should take his turn. NEITHER AFFLICTIONS, NOR DOUBTS, NOR CONSCIOUS SIN DO MAKE GOD'S MERCIES FAIL. A psalm. Please see our Privacy Policy for cookie usage details. Shepherding, then - flock leading - involves that our "God doth provide." The earth trembled and shook. No! i. 1. The sense is, “God, I know you are there – why won’t You help me the way I need to be helped?”. 2 b In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in c the night my d hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul e refuses to be comforted. Psalm 77 - For the director of music. Has God forgotten to be gracious? Surely I will remember Your wonders of old. He wondered why God seemed to answer those in the past with more satisfaction than He does in the present. “Right hand of the most High”: The psalmist began to remember the times when God used His right hand (power), to strengthen and protect him. At the bottom of complaining generally lies an overweening sense of our own importance - the idea that we deserve better than we get. God's unknown way for them will be revealed to them in good time. Here the psalmist is recounting his story: urgent, persistent, prolonged prayer, and yet the prayer seems to go unanswered. He will never leave his people in a strait like that, blessed be his Name! When I was in distress, I Life forevery one of us is like the story of the children of Israel, full of Divine surprises, and we are never "straitened in God." 2. Forerunner Commentary Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown John Wesley's Notes Matthew Henry People's Commentary (NT) Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) Scofield: Definitions: Interlinear: Library: Topical Studies: X-References: Commentaries: Forerunner Commentary What is the Forerunner Commentary? “Strictly speaking, ‘I will make mention of’; i.e., it is a public recounting of these deeds.”, Your way, O God, is in the sanctuary; . “Spurgeon’s studies of the psalms were produced between 1865 and 1885, and during those twenty years he experienced much ill health, which continued to deteriorate until his death in 1892. II. Psalms 76:12. 1 God’s chosen people were dragged away to Babylon as slaves. Something bad had happened to him or to his people, the *Jews. Even our circumstances seem to gain new shapings, settings, and relations, and become altogether more hopeful, when we can associate God with them. Temptation, etc. IT COMFORTS US TO REMEMBER GOD'S DEEDS AS A WHOLE. Psalms 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. A MAN - A GOOD MAN - DISPOSED TO TAKE DESPONDENT VIEWS. Yes, God's providence had changed, but not his heart. 3. "But we wrestle, not with flesh and blood only, but with the rulers of spiritual darkness." This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. I meditate within my heart, Job is singled as a man of God, blameless and upright, whose staggering losses and long and painful illness brought him low: "My days . It may be like the tiny insect in the astronomer's telescope, that seemed to show a huge creature eating up the moon. She fain would borrow a light from the altars of yesterday to light the gloom of to-day. The psalmist "refused to be comforted." Even in the strangest experiences, submission, not complaint, is the becoming thing. III. 2 b In the day of my trouble I seek the Lord; in c the night my d hand is stretched out without wearying; my soul e refuses to be comforted. - R.T. Psalms 77:1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. We need 2 cookies to store this setting. The end of the psalm tells us that God gave help in the past. Will the Lord cast off forever? “He refused some comforts as too weak for his case, others as untrue, others as unhallowed; but chiefly because of distraction, he declined even those grounds of consolation which ought to have been effectual with him. As a sign of confidence in God, it is right; but then it will be complaining to God, not of him. Was it not reasonable for the psalmist to express his doubts and question God? New American Standard Version. Psalms 77. The memories never change. He treated himself homeopathically, treating like with like. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of business or amusement, but he sought God, and his favor and grace. We do not know who wrote Psalm 77. 10-20). III. THE STING OF DOUBTING TIMES IS THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF SIN. Partly because of what it actually was, partly because of the sunshine which the spirit of youth put on it, and partly because memory keeps the pleasant, and easily drops the painful. Psalm 77 Psa 77:1 SUPERSCRIPTION: "OF ASAPH. Things, and conditions of mind and feeling, may affect our vision of him; they cannot affect him. (Job 7:6, 7) Moses is described as the meekest man on earth (Numbers 12:3) and rises as one … And Your footsteps were not known. The sea down below is always heaving and tossing; the heavens up above are always steadfast. We could find in it single perplexing things; e.g. Psalm 77 begins as a psalm of lament, the cry of the people of God in days of darkness and distress, despair and desolation. Check to enable permanent hiding of message bar and refuse all cookies if you do not opt in. He had neuralgia and gout, which left him with swollen, red, painful limbs, so that he frequently could not walk or even write. With two more questions Asaph wondered if God’s grace and mercy were no longer available to him; that they were forgotten or blocked toward him. i. Introduction. See Psalm 77:4, Psalm 77:6. There are several coincidences between Psalms 77:16-19 of the psalm and Habakkuk 3:10-15: namely, the expression "writhed in pain," applied in Habakkuk to the mountains; the word rendered "overflowing" (A.V.) These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our website and to use some of its features. d. Your way was in the sea, Your path in the great waters: When God miraculously parted the waters of the Red Sea, it was as if He cleared a great road or path for Himself that He also gave to His people to use. Psalm 77#In Hebrew texts 77:1-20 is numbered 77:2-21.For the director of music. 1-3. i. II. 1. In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 76 Content. And will He be favorable no more? The Story of Psalm 77. 2 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. "My God shall supply all your needs.". iii. The justice and goodness of God could not be maintained, if "in this life only we have hope.". And, for the Christian man, memories of special times of Divine guidance, rescue, restoration. For God ever sets out promises for faith to grasp; and what can faith do if God does not keep his promises? Or, if not for reproof, then for the sake of others, that when we find them in darkness, we may be able to tell them how God helped us. What power there is in life's sorrows to bind together hearts that otherwise would have remained apart! No awe can attach to the gods of man's creation. MENTAL DEPRESSIONS CONVINCE OF THE SERIOUSNESS OF OUR MORAL CONFLICT. Psalms 77:2. It is always a comfort when you can see the footprints of another man in the mire and the slough, for if that man passed through unharmed, so may you, for his God shall also be your Helper.” (Spurgeon). Of Asaph. For Jeduthun. We see that God works both in great wonders (as at the Red Sea) and in the normal leading of His people through human instruments (Moses and Aaron). Asaph’s honest anguish is worthy of contemplation. A Psalm of z Asaph. Psalm 78 – Learning from God’s Faithfulness to His Rebellious People. No man has compassed the entire circle of Divine possibilities. In a similar way, show how man's thought is limited by man's limited knowledge. Here we have six questions, one after another, each one striking at the very heart of unbelief.” (Spurgeon), ii. c. The earth trembled and shook: Asaph described the presence of God as being so manifest at the parting of the Red Sea that the earth itself shook. Has He in anger shut up His tender mercies? I. 1) and prolonged all the night through (ver. To Jeduthun--(See on JF & B for Ps 39:1, title). WORD AND PHRASE STUDY. When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands, and I would not be comforted. IV. I call to remembrance my song in the night; It is the letting in of doubt and unbelief that works such harm. The sons of Jacob and Joseph: “The coupling of Jacob and Joseph as ancestors of the people redeemed from the Egyptians may be due to the insistence of both of them that the Promised Land, not Egypt, must be their final rest (Genesis 47:29ff; 50:24f).” (Kidner). - R.T. 1 Chronicles 25:1 and 2 Chronicles 29:30 add that Asaph was a prophet in his musical compositions. Apply to the provisions made for Israel when journeying through the wilderness - manna, water, meat. So the dangers of God's people come from. Our website uses cookies to store user preferences. Our doubtings usually concern: 1. They teach us to sympathize with the sorrowful. It was meet that another leader of the psalmody should take his turn. How would faith be educated and developed. III. GOD IS "GLORIOUS IN HOLINESS;" that is, in character. 1-3, Introductory-shewing, by quotation of Language and Statement of Fact, that the Psalmist has been Inconsolable. III. 1. Psalm 73:17.) 3. 7, 8, 9), were all impossible of belief, mere nightmares of the soul, altogether false and untrue. You have with Your arm redeemed Your people, (vs. 9) PSALM 77 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE Comfort in Distress Obtained by the Study of a Song, ANALYSIS Stanza I,, vers. Observe how he kills one question with another, as men fight fire with fire. God's relationship. b. The Atlantic with fathomless depths is no more to Him than a brook to us.” (Meyer). The water imagery could refer to Genesis 1 (i.e., creation) or Exodus 14-15 (i.e., the exodus). “In [Middle Eastern] fashion he ‘stretched out’ his hands in prayer (Psalm 143:6) and continued to lift up his hands ‘at night’.” (VanGemeren). 3 When I remember God, I f moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. At first he felt his misery, and called aloud. God's actual present nearness. Psalms 77:1 Context. Since these providers may collect personal data like your IP address we allow you to block them here. (Vers. Click to enable/disable Google Analytics tracking. Psalm 77:12 Parallel Verses [⇓ See commentary ⇓] Psalm 77:12, NIV: "I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds.'" a. 1 A maskil of Asaph.. If you do not want that we track your visit to our site you can disable tracking in your browser here: We also use different external services like Google Webfonts, Google Maps, and external Video providers. 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. Of Asaph. He receives more light, sees and feels his deep wretchedness, and then his words are swallowed by excessive distress. 2 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. This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. He drove his foes before him, but went before his people.” (Spurgeon), iii. HE PERSEVERES IN PRAYER, THOUGH HE HAS NO SENSE OF THE PRESENCE OR MERCY OF GOD. In the slightly different numbering system of the Greek Septuagint version of the bible, and in its Latin translation in the Vulgate, this psalm is Psalm 76 Content. 1. The complaints seem to be of personal grievances, but the encouragements relate to the public concerns of the church, so that it is not certain whether it was penned upon a personal or a public account. This point is specially Eastern. By the hand of Moses and Aaron. I. They serve as revelations of character to the self-deceived, and show such how far other than they have thought they really are. II. And ceased not - The word used here - פוג pûg - means properly to be cold; then, to be torpid, sluggish, slack. 3. These represent our common everyday needs, which truly come by the Shepherd's providing, arranging, and controlling. a. Many a beloved saint has felt the agony of these questions; we could wish that each of them would ask these questions as boldly and honestly as Asaph did. A Psalm of Asaph. IV. 2. It’s hard to know at this point if Asaph is describing something not included in Exodus 14 or simply describing the presence and power of God in poetic terms. Psalm 77:5 Verse of the Day Commentary. - R.T. ii. Sin clouds the mind with doubts. b. And talk of Your deeds. If he cannot see these in his own small sphere, he can see them in the large spheres of the history of God's Church. One rendering of the text is, "O God, thy way is holy." Even our sins can be calmly reviewed, when we can see how God has dealt with them, and what he has done for us through sanctifying to us our very experience of them. Because these cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the website, refuseing them will have impact how our site functions. Psalm 77. Whatever the case, there is nothing improbable about these additional manifestations of God’s power on that great night of nights for Israel.” (Boice), iii. The voice of Your thunder was in the whirlwind; The day has not rushed in yet with all of its duties. But read the lives as a whole, and God's purpose of grace comes fully to view. This is my anguish: We appreciate the honest anguishof Asaph in this psalm. And thus did all these men perish, so that there was not one man left to be a messenger of this calamity to the rest of the Egyptians.” (Josephus, cited in Spurgeon), ii. 4-6.). And He gave ear to me. You have declared Your strength among the peoples. And the very best way in which to become ashamed of our complainings is to speak them out before God. . When we are fully satisfied with the character of God, we begin to trace purposes of holiness and love in all his doings. II. “This mighty God has the tender heart of a shepherd. Otherwise you will be prompted again when opening a new browser window or new a tab. It is impossible to comfort those who refuse to be comforted.” (Spurgeon), iii. I. He tells of it in vers. 2 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. We know there is another world than the world of sense; there is a world of thought and feeling. My hand was stretched out in the night without ceasing; 1. Psalms 77:3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Of Asaph. He would sleep, but could not. Click to enable/disable _ga - Google Analytics Cookie. i. PSALM 77 COMME TARY EDITED BY GLE PEASE For the director of music. Selah. (1-10) He encourages himself by the remembrance of God's help of his people. With weary eyes and a troubled heart, he sincerely sought God. We often do when, would we only say, "I will trust," then we should find that we should "not be afraid." c. I call to remembrance my song in the night: Asaph’s seeking after God remembered better times (song in the night), and it was deep (I meditate within my heart) and diligent. If they were private troubles that he was groaning under, … 15-19). 2. The distressed soul, as it often does, utterly broke down. You hold my eyelids open: Asaph considered the intensity of his cry to God. Brooding over the "things we have done which we should not have done, and the things left undone which we should have done," is sure to become morbid work. The calamities of life, when death seems to reign in terrible power, serve to startle the conscience of sinful men, and, as it were, force them to think of God and things eternal (Isaiah 26:9). In the day of his trouble he did not seek for the diversions of business or recreation, to shake off his trouble that way, but he sought God, and his favour and grace. They who are duly impressed with the Divine holiness never permit any growth of knowledge, any acquaintance with God's ways, to nourish undue familiarities with his sacred Name. I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me. The complaints seem to be of personal grievances, but the encouragements relate to the public concerns of the church, so that it is not certain whether it was penned upon a personal or a public account. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. His holiness, that nothing unclean may approach him; yet also his mercy and compassion, as seen in the forgiveness through sacrifice proclaimed there; the worship he delights in and demands; the surrender of the self to him, symbolized by the shedding of the blood of the sacrifices, for "the blood is the life." Your footsteps were not known: “God is described as wading through mighty oceans as a man might ford some tiny stream. And so we come to apprehend the reality of the "spiritual.". The way of God was in the sanctuary in the sense that the tabernacle or the temple and its rituals clearly spoke of the way to God through the blood of an innocent sacrifice, ultimately pointing to the person and work of Jesus Christ. Due to security reasons we are not able to show or modify cookies from other domains. Home » Bible Commentaries » Psalms. Once we come to know that our years are of His right hand, there is light everywhere.” (G. Campbell Morgan), I cried out to God with my voice— It may have been a terribly hard, difficult, rough way; the man's lot in life may be heavily burdened with care, but "in the sanctuary," as he waits upon God and pours out his soul before the Lord, lo, these very trials and cares become transfigured and changed in fashion, so that they become as wings on which his soul mounts up nearer to God than ever he had attained to before, and he comes to confess, "It was good for me that I was afflicted.". The complaints seem to be of personal grievances, but the encouragements relate to the public concerns of the church, so that it is not certain whether it was penned upon a personal or a public account. THE CHRISTIAN'S GREAT TROUBLES ARE DOUBTS ABOUT GOD, NOT AFFLICTIONS SENT BY GOD. With the waves and billows going over us, we yet could sing in our souls, "Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness...in the night his song shall be with me. GOD IS "FEARFUL IN PRAISES." Psalm 73 • My Only Desire on Earth Psalm 78 • The Legacy of Signs. II. - R.T. I. Bible commentary on the Book of Psalms, chapter 77, by Dr. Bob Utley, retired professor of hermeneutics. Of their present circumstances. 10-15.) A man complains when he imagines himself to be neglected or ill used. Painter and astronomer in a storm. So the cause for anxiety is that "singleness," clearness of vision, which enables us to see the past as it was, and read aright its relation to the present. Finally, it seems he has begun to stop this pity party. i. Even Christ learned through the things that he suffered. Your path in the great waters: “It is a true picture of God’s sway over nature. 1 Chronicles 25:1 and 2 Chronicles 29:30 add that Asaph was a prophet in his musical compositions. The Book of Psalms Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET PSALM 77 Psa 77:1-20.To Jeduthun--(See on JF & B for Ps 39:1, title).In a time of great affliction, when ready to despair, the Psalmist derives relief from calling to mind God's former and wonderful works of delivering power and grace. 1-10) and a hymn (vss. Selah. The Book of Psalms Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET PSALM 77 Psa 77:1-20. I cried out to God for help;I cried out to God to hear me. Men never do things that somebody has not done before them. 10 he comes to see how he has been led to think such sad thoughts. To state the question is to be ashamed of the doubting that suggested it. Selah. The figure is of the hand stretched out in prayer till it was unnerved by weariness, and yet refused to rest. For him, the apparent gap between what he believed and what he felt was painful. PSALM 77 COMME TARY EDITED BY GLE PEASE For the director of music. ii. Psalms 77:17 - The clouds poured out water; The skies gave forth a sound; Your arrows flashed here and there. It is the unique response of man to adequate impressions of the Divine holiness. 2 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. God's Personality. 77 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 I will open my mouth in a parable, *. Let me outline a few steps that give us a pattern we can follow to regain emotional equilibrium when life gets you down. The first two verses describe how Asaph was seeking after the Lord in the midst of his turmoil. And that is the proper and hopeful occupation. Psalm 77:2. Home; War With North Korea; 1 Corinthians; Advent 2018; Amos; Daily Meditation ; Galatians; Israel and Palestine Tour; James; Jeremiah; Job; Jonah; Lectionary Year A; Lectionary Year C; Mark; Philemon; Proverbs; Psalms; Sermon on the Mount; Topics; Uncategorized; Psalm 77. Changes will take effect once you reload the page. A Psalm of Asaph. Ask, "Is his mercy clean gone forever?" Of God's dealings with them. Then there are memories of events that have happened. i. "There has no temptation taken us but such as is common to man." Has His promise failed forevermore? 2. come to an end without hope . He may be God, but is he my God? Suppose we took all things easily; never troubled over them; never brooded; - how easily the "material" would gain the mastery! (2) And who is "infinitely great and good," Psalms 77:13. 5. The following cookies are also needed - You can choose if you want to allow them: You can read about our cookies and privacy settings in detail on our Privacy Policy Page. This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. He does, he is constantly doing, new things. "Then I said, This is my sorrow, that the right hand of the Highest hath changed." The six rhetorical questions (of verses 7-9), reveal that the psalm was written at a time when God had apparently withheld His compassion from His people, though no specific details are given. He was jealous for his people. Psalm 77:19. One may say to the person in despair, “Go to a movie and have some fun,” or some other advice that treats his despair lightly. Your arrows also flashed about. (Vers. 6. It begins with remembering God’s great works, His wonders of old. 3). The ancient Jewish historian Josephus did: “As soon as ever the whole Egyptian army was within it, the sea flowed to its own place, and came down with a torrent raised by storms of wind and encompassed the Egyptians. We may project our shadows over him, and then find we can only see the shadows. The years of ancient times. Psalms 77 Commentary, this commentary, spanning 23 volumes, covered the entire Bible with verse by verse exposition They are in harmony with the spirit of the sanctuary. 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