Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 77:20
Leddest — First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep.
Leddest — First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep.
Verse Psalms 77:20. _THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK_] This may refer to the _pillar of cloud and fire_. It went before them, and they followed it. So, in the eastern countries, the shepherd does...
THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK BY THE HAND OF MOSES AND AARON - This satisfied and comforted the mind of the psalmist. God had never forsaken his people. He had shown himself faithful in his dea...
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....
MOSES AND AARON. Only here in this third book....
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....
Conclusion. The convulsions of nature were the heralds of deliverance (Luke 21:28), and the Shepherd of Israel led forth His flock under the guidance of His chosen servants. Cp. Exodus 15:13; Psalms 7...
THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK— The complaints of good men in the Scriptures of the Old Testament are of two sorts: one regards the national calamities of the Jews, the other the sufferings of p...
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...
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. THOU LEADEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK BY THE HAND OF MOSES AND AARON - (; Isaiah 63:11; )....
77:20 Aaron. (e-14) See Micah 6:4 ....
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...
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...
(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...
_[Psalms 77:21]_ נָחִ֣יתָ כַ † צֹּ֣אן עַמֶּ֑ךָ...
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...
“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...
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...
_Bread. Including all sorts of food. (Worthington) --- Table. Hebrew, "flesh." It is true we have water and manna, but we want something more solid and agreeable. (Calmet)_...
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?...
REFLECTIONS READER, ponder over the weighty contents of this blessed Psalm. Do we see Christ in it? Did Jesus so cry in the days of his flesh? Did he accomplish salvation for his people, when he bore...
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...
THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE LIKE A FLOCK,.... Either through the Red sea, according to R. Moses Hacohen, as Aben Ezra observes; see Isaiah 63:11, or rather, as he and Kimchi, through the wilderness, afte...
Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. Ver. 20. _Thou leddest thy people like a flock_] And so he still leadeth his Church with much love and care, by good magistrates a...
_Thou leddest thy people_ First through the sea, and afterward through the vast howling wilderness to Canaan; _like a flock_ With singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep. The Psalm...
Thou leddest Thy people like a flock, His hand both protecting and guiding them, BY THE HAND OF MOSES AND AARON, His representatives before the children of Israel, Exodus 14:29. All believers may rest...
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...
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...
THOU LEDDEST THY PEOPLE; first through the sea, and afterwards through the vast howling wilderness to Canaan. LIKE A FLOCK; with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep. And therefo...
Psalms 77:20 led H5148 (H8804) people H5971 flock H6629 hand H3027 Moses H4872 Aaron H175...
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...
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...
_Thy way is in the sea, and Thy path in the great waters, and Thy footsteps are not known._ THE PERPLEXING FORCE IN HUMAN LIFE I. There are evils in our way, unseen by us, from which it will be God’...
_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
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...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 77:20 FLOCK. For the image of God’s people as sheep, and God as their Shepherd, see notes on 23:1; 74:1–3....
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...
Acts 7:35; Acts 7:36; Exodus 13:21; Exodus 14:19; Hosea 12:13;...