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William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Psalms 77:1-20

The Portal of a New Period: A New Year's Sermon Psalms 77:10 The New Year admonishes with a triple exhortation. It bids us think of three tenses and of a threefold progression. We are bidden to reflect on the good old time, to give thanks for the new and better time, and to work for the future time, the best of all. I. Think of the days of old and of the wonders of the Most High. Gratitude demands such meditation. But such thankfulness for the mercies of the past does not involve... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Bible Commentary - Psalms 77:1-20

Psalms 77:1-20THE 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 deliverance. It is natural to suppose that present national disasters were the causes of the sorrow which enveloped the psalmist’s spirit and suggested questions of despair, only saved from being blasphemous because they were so wistful. But it by no means follows that the singer is simply the... read more

Arno Clemens Gaebelein

Arno Gaebelein's Annotated Bible - Psalms 77:1-20

Psalms 77:0 The Distressed Saint and His Comfort 1. The distress (Psalms 77:1-10 ) 2. The comfort (Psalms 77:11-20 ) This Psalm shows the distress of the saint in deepest exercise of soul. He earnestly seeks the Lord and never leaves off. “my hand was stretched out in the night, and failed not” (literal translation of Psalms 77:2 ). He moaned and complained and his spirit was overwhelmed. Then in still greater distress he asks, “Will the Lord cast off forever?--Is His mercy come to an end... read more

James Gray

James Gray's Concise Bible Commentary - Psalms 77:1-20

Psalms 67:0 The first half dozen of these psalms form a group millennial and Messianic. The first is millennial. It is Israel who speaks; the psalm cannot be appreciated unless the word “us” in Psalms 67:1 is so applied. When God has mercy upon and blesses Israel in the latter days, His way and His saving health unto all nations (Psalms 67:2 ) will begin to be known. In other words, the present age is one of out-gathering, but the age to come (millennial) will be one of in-gathering. God is now... read more

Joseph Parker

The People's Bible by Joseph Parker - Psalms 77:1-20

Troubled By Thoughts of God Psa 77:3 All great doctrines seem to be proved by consciousness and by experience, rather than by mere texts, and certainly rather than by mental expertness and enterprise. If called upon to prove the immortality of the soul we should not think of referring to any book for a proof of it. Whatever belongs to man is best proved by man himself; man on all such subjects is himself the book. If there are external declarations of man's immortality, they must find an... read more

Robert Hawker

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary - Psalms 77:2

Every verse tends more and more to confirm the foregoing observation: Being in an agony (saith the evangelist), he prayed more earnestly, and the sweat of his face was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground. Luke 22:44 . read more

George Haydock

George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary - Psalms 77:2

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 appertaining to the time of the New Testament. (Challoner) --- St. Matthew (xiii. 35.) has, things hidden from the foundation of the world. Hebrew minni kedem, "from of old." St. Jerome, "ancient riddles." (Haydock) --- Mashal and chidoth, "parables and enigmas." frequently denote things very plain,... read more

Matthew Henry

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 77:1-10

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 business or amusement, but he sought God, and his favor and grace. Those that are under trouble of mind, must pray it away. He pored upon the trouble; the methods that should have relieved him did but increase his grief. When he remembered God, it was only the Divine justice and wrath. His spirit was... read more

Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann - Psalms 77:1-20

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 in the midst of affliction, by calling to mind God's former and wonderful acts of deliverance. v. 1. I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice, in importunate supplication; and He gave ear unto me, in a gracious answer and act of deliverance. v. 2. In the day of my trouble,... read more

Johann Peter Lange

Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures: Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical - Psalms 77:1-20

Psalms 77:0To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun A Psalm of Asaph2          I cried unto God with my voice,Even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.3     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.4     I remembered God, and was troubled:I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.5     Thou holdest mine eyes waking:I am so troubled that I cannot speak.6     I have considered the days of old,The years of... read more

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