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Psalms 77:1
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.
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.
PSALM LXXVII _The psalmist's ardent prayer to God in the tine of distress_, 1-4. _The means he used to excite his confidence_, 5-12. _God's wonderful works in behalf of his people_, 13-20. NOTES...
I CRIED UNTO GOD WITH MY VOICE - That is, he cried or prayed audibly. It was not mere mental prayer. See the notes at Psalms 3:4. EVEN UNTO GOD WITH MY VOICE - The repetition here is emphatic. The ide...
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....
TO THE CHIEF MUSICIAN. See App-64. TO JEDUTHUN. See App-65. TITLE.. PSALM. Hebrew. _mizmor._ App-65. OF ASAPH. for Asaph. The sixth of the twelve Asaph Psalms. App-63. GOD. Hebrew. _Elohim._ App-4...
"Aloud unto God let me cry, Yea, aloud unto God, and he will give ear to me....
The Psalmist relates how, under the pressure of calamity, he could find no consolation even in prayer....
_The Psalmist sheweth what fierce combat he had with diffidence; and the victory which he had by the consideration of God's great and gracious works._ To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of A...
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...
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. Psalms 77:1.-Complaint under desertion by God; past deliverances remembered, aggravate present pain (Psalms 77:...
77:1 Jeduthun. (a-6) As Psalms 39 and 62....
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...
CRIED.. GAVE] RV 'will cry.. will give.'...
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...
I CRIED... — Better, following the Hebrew literally, “My voice to God — and let me cry; My voice to God — and He hears me.” The Authorised Version has followed the LXX. and Vulg. in neglecting the st...
לַ † מְנַצֵּ֥חַ עַֽל־_יְדוּת֗וּן_† לְ אָסָ֥ף...
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...
“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...
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...
"To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph." I cried unto God with my (a) voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. (a) The prophet teaches us by his example to flee t...
Asaph. David composed this, to declare the rights of Juda to the throne, in preference to the tribe of Ephraim, (Lyranus) which had kept possession of the ark a long time; which was henceforth to be o...
CONTENTS The church is here evidently under exercises. Some mighty foes come against her, and her resource can only be found in her God. The Psalmist thus speaks of his confidence, confesses that God...
1._My voice came to God, and I cried. _This is not a mere complaint, as some interpreters explain it, denoting the surprise which the people of God felt in finding that he who hitherto had been accust...
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...
I CRIED UNTO GOD WITH MY VOICE,.... Which is to be understood of prayer, and that vocal, and which is importunate and fervent, being made in distress; see Psalms 3:4, or "my voice was unto God" h, "an...
Psalms 77:1 «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. » I cried unto God with my voice, [even] unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. _A Psalm of Asaph_] Or, for Asaph; David's...
_I cried unto God_, &c. This verse seems to contain the sum of the whole Psalm, consisting of two parts, namely, his earnest cry to God in his deep distress, and God's gracious answer to his prayers,...
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...
PSALM 77 THE ARGUMENT This Psalm was composed upon the occasion of some sore and long calamity of God's people; either the Babylonish captivity, or some other. Either that Asaph who lived and prophesi...
Psalms 77:1 Musician H5329 (H8764) Jeduthun H3038 Psalm H4210 Asaph H623 cried H6817 (H8799) God H430 God...
JEDUTHUN (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 39:1). _...
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...
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...
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...
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...
_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
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...
1 Chronicles 16:41; 1 Chronicles 16:42; 1 Chronicles 25:3; 1 Chronicles 25:6;...