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Verse Psalms 77:17. _THE CLOUDS POURED OUT WATER_] It appears from
this that there was a violent _tempest_ at the time of the passage of
the Red Sea. There was a violent storm of _thunder, lightning_,...
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THE CLOUDS POURED OUT WATER - Margin, “The clouds were poured forth
with water.” The translation in the text is the more correct. This
is a description of a storm; but to what particular storm in hist...
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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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CLOUDS. the thick or dark clouds.
ARROWS. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Adjunct), App-6, for
lightnings, mentioned below....
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God came in storm and earthquake. So the poet develops the thought of
Exodus 14:24-25. Cp. Psalms 18:7 ff; Psalms 97:3 ff.; and the parallel
passage in...
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The manifestation of God's sovereignty over nature in that supreme act
of redemption....
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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....
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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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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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SOUND] thunder. ARROWS] lightning....
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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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(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...
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_[Psalms 77:18]_ זֹ֤רְמוּ מַ֨יִם ׀ עָבֹ֗ות
קֹ֖ול נָתְנ֣וּ...
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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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“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...
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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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The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a (l) sound: thine
arrows also went abroad.
(l) That is, thundered and lightninged....
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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?...
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17._The clouds poured out waters. _As the noun מים, _mayim, _cannot
be taken in the construct state, the verb, I have no doubt, is put
transitively; but it makes little difference as to the sense, whe...
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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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THE CLOUDS POURED OUT WATER,.... This, with some other circumstances
which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair;
but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there is...
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The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows
also went abroad.
Ver. 17. _The clouds poured out water, the skies, &c._] Calvin taketh
this to be a description of that hideous...
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_The waters saw thee, O God_ They felt the visible effects of thy
powerful presence. _They were afraid_ And stood still, as men or
beasts astonished commonly do. _The clouds poured out water_ Namely,...
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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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The clouds poured out water, during a mighty thunderstorm revealing
Jehovah's power; THE SKIES SENT OUT A SOUND, the entire firmament
sounding; THINE ARROWS ALSO WENT ABROAD, the lightnings being pict...
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THE CLOUDS POURED OUT WATER:
_ Heb._ the clouds were poured forth with water...
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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...
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THE CLOUDS POURED OUT WATER, when the Israelites passed over the sea;
in respect whereof the Israelites are said to have been _baptized in
the cloud_ (i.e. sprinkled with water poured forth from the c...
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Psalms 77:17 clouds H5645 out H2229 (H8776) water H4325 skies H7834
out H5414 (H8804) sound H6963 arrows...
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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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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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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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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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_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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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...
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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 Samuel 22:15; Habakkuk 3:11; Psalms 144:6; Psalms 18:14; Psalms 68:
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Poured — When the Israelites passed over the sea. Arrows — Hail
— stones or lightnings....