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Verse Psalms 77:8. _FOR EVERMORE?_] לדר ודר _ledor vador_, "to
generation and generation." From race to race. Shall no mercy be shown
even to the remotest generation of the children of the offenders?...
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IS HIS MERCY CLEAN GONE FOR EVER? - The word rendered “clean gone”
means to fail; to fail utterly. The idea is, Can it be that the
compassion of God has become exhausted - that no more mercy is to be...
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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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MERCY. lovingkindness, or grace.
PROMISE. word. Put by Figure of speech _Metonymy_ (of Cause), App-6,
for the promise given by it....
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In the vigils of the night he pondered on the history of the past, and
asked himself with earnest questionings whether it were possible that
God could have utterly cast off His people, and changed His...
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Is his lovingkindness at an end for ever?
Hath his promise failed for all generations?
Cp. Psalms 85:5; Psalms 105:8....
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DISCOURSE: 630
DESPONDENCY DEPICTED AND REPROVED
Psalms 77:7. _Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be
favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise
fail for evermore...
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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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Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
-The contrast of the past with the sad present suggests the question,
Has God, as appearances would imply, completely cast off Hi...
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77:8 word (c-9) _ Omer_ see Psalms 119:11 ....
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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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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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(7-9) The self-questionings here follow as they rise sigh after sigh
in the poet’s heart. God’s silences have always been more
appalling to the human spirit than even the most terrible of His
manifest...
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_[Psalms 77:9]_ הֶ אָפֵ֣ס לָ נֶ֣צַח חַסְדֹּ֑ו...
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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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Is his (f) mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for
evermore?
(f) As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he exhorts himself
to patience....
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_Fathers. Some were virtuous, like Moses, Josue, Samuel, &c., ver. 3.,
and 5. (Berthier) --- But the majority proved faithless. (Haydock) ---
To God. Or did not confide in him, or know that without Go...
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These are blessed inquiries, and all tend to lead the soul to God, and
to induce the happy issue in which the questions end. No, God hath not
cast off his people whom he foreknew. God hath not, God wi...
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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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IS HIS MERCY CLEAN GONE FOR EVER?.... Or "his grace" q; and mercy is
no other than grace to objects in misery; Unbelief says it is gone,
that no more will be shown, and that the treasures of it are
ex...
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_Will the Lord cast off for ever?_ “The psalmist now relates the
process of his meditations, and of that controversy which arose in his
heart between faith and distrust.” Most commentators suppose tha...
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Is His mercy clean gone forever Has He for gotten all His merciful
promises? DOTH HIS PROMISE FAIL FOREVERMORE? Surely such a course
would not harmonize with the outstanding attributes of His essence....
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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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FOR EVER MORE?:
_ Heb._ to generation and generation...
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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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Are all the stores of his mercy quite spent? Doth he now cease to be
what he hath styled himself, the Lord gracious and merciful,
long-suffering, and abundant in goodness? Will he never more make good...
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Psalms 77:8 mercy H2617 ceased H656 (H8804) forever H5331 promise H562
failed H1584 (H8804) forevermore H1755...
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Psalms 77:7
The moral to be drawn from this Psalm is that in all troubles and
adversities it is our own fault if we have not a light to guide and
cheer us, and that the true remedy against despondenc...
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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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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 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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_Will the Lord cast off for ever?_
and will He be favourable no more?
AGAINST EXCESSIVE GRIEF
I. The grief which nature dictates, and which, in moderation, the God
of nature does not prohibit, becom...
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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 77:4 The agonizing question that keeps the
singer awake at night (vv. Psalms 77:4) is whether God will SPURN his
people fo
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PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 77:7 It does not offend God when his troubled
people raise these questions. The answer is found in Exodus 34:6,
which describes the enduring goodness of God toward his people. If...
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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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Isaiah 27:11; Jeremiah 15:18; Luke 16:25; Luke 16:26; Numbers 14:34;...