Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 77:3
Troubled — Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed — So far was I from finding relief.
Troubled — Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed — So far was I from finding relief.
Verse Psalms 77:3. _MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED._] As the verb is in the _hithpael_ conjugation, the word must mean _my spirit was_ _overpowered in itself_. It purposed to involve itself in this calamit...
I REMEMBERED GOD - That is, I thought on God; I thought on his character, his government, and his dealings; I thought on the mysteries - the incomprehensible things - the apparently unequal, unjust, a...
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....
COMPLAINED. communed [with myself]. MY SPIRIT. I (emphatic). Hebrew. _ruach_. App-9. SELAH. Connecting this self-introspection with its sure result misery. See App-66....
The Psalmist relates how, under the pressure of calamity, he could find no consolation even in prayer....
When I would fain remember God, I was disquieted: When I would fain muse in prayer, my spirit fainted. The precise force of the tenses of the original is difficult to determine. The perfects in Psal...
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 remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. I REMEMBERED GOD, AND WAS TROUBLED - rather, 'I will remember God, and will moan.' Note, Psalms 55:2, 'Make a n...
SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4....
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...
I REMEMBERED. — Better, “If I remember God I must sigh; I meditate, and my spirit faints.” OR, “Let me remember God, and sigh; I must complain, and my spirit faints.” The word rendered _overwhelmed_...
_[Psalms 77:4]_ אֶזְכְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְ אֶֽהֱמָיָ֑ה אָשִׂ֓יחָה...
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...
I remembered God, and was (b) troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. (b) He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry...
_Fathers. Christ might thus speak as man, and he enforces tradition in the strongest terms. (Berthier) --- Only some things were written. (Worthington) --- The most ancient and universal mode of instr...
There is somewhat very singular, and, at first reading, very strange, in these expressions. Doth the remembrance of God, as a gracious covenant God, tend to increase affliction? Surely every remembran...
3._I will remember God, and will be troubled. _The Psalmist here employs a variety of expressions to set forth the vehemence of his grief, and, at the same time, the greatness of his affliction. He co...
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 REMEMBERED GOD, AND WAS TROUBLED,.... Either the mercy, grace, and goodness of God, as Jarchi; how ungrateful he had been to him, how sadly he had requited him, how unthankful and unholy he was, not...
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Ver. 3. _I remembered God, and was troubled_] _Tumultuabar, fluctuando perstrepebam; _ for God seemed to be ang...
_I remembered God, and was troubled_ Yea, the thoughts of God, and of his infinite power, wisdom, truth, and goodness, which used to be very sweet and consolatory to me, were now causes of terror and...
I remembered God and was troubled, groaning at the thought that Jehovah, once his Helper, had now apparently forsaken him; I COMPLAINED, AND MY SPIRIT WAS OVERWHELMED, so overcome that he could no lon...
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...
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...
Yea, the thoughts of God, and of his infinite power, and truth, and goodness, which used to be very sweet and comfortable to me, were now matter of terror and trouble, because they were all engaged ag...
Psalms 77:3 remembered H2142 (H8799) God H430 troubled H1993 (H8799) complained H7878 (H8799) spirit H7307 overwhelmed
Psalms 77:3 There are two points of view under which we wish to present this subject: the strangeness of such an experience and some of the reasons that may account for it. I. The strangeness of such...
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...
_I remembered God, and was troubled._ REMEMBERING GOD This was a very sad condition. Asaph must have felt that it was unnatural to entertain such gloomy thoughts of God. I. A test of our condition....
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...
Jeremiah 17:17; Job 23:15; Job 23:16; Job 31:23; Job 6:4;...