Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 77:6
My song — The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night.
My song — The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night.
Verse Psalms 77:6. _I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG IN THE NIGHT_] I do not think that נגינתי _neginathi_ means _my song_. We know that _neginath_ signifies some _stringed_ musical instrument that was...
I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG IN THE NIGHT - Compare Job 35:10, note; Psalms 42:8, note. The word here rendered “song” - נגינה _n__e__gı̂ynâh_ - means properly the music of stringed instruments,...
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....
MY SONG. Note that the whole of this member (verses: Psalms 77:1) is occupation with self....
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...
"Let me remember my song in the night: Let me muse in my heart;" And my spirit inquired, (saying), In the first two lines he tells us how he bade himself recall the songs of thanksgiving which he ha...
I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG— _In the night I conversed with my heart, and my spirit made inquiry, saying,_—Green....
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 holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. -His sleepless nights, and his inability to speak, are attributed to the remembrance of the sad contrast which God's present des...
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...
MY SONG IN THE NIGHT] a former time of happiness and praise: see Psalms 42:8; Job 35:10....
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 CALL TO REMEMBRANCE. — Better, “Let me recall my harpings in the night; Let me complain in my own heart, And my spirit questions and questions.”...
_[Psalms 77:7]_ אֶֽזְכְּרָ֥ה נְגִינָתִ֗י בַּ֫ † לָּ֥יְלָה...
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 call to remembrance my (d) song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made (e) diligent search. (d) Of thanksgiving, which I was accustomed to sing in my prosperity. (e) Both...
Jesus spent whole nights, we are told, in prayer to God. No doubt the love of God to Israel, through all the eventful pilgrimage of his church's warfare, occupied his holy mind. It is blessed, in our...
6._I will call to remembrance my song in the night. _By _his song _he denotes the exercise of thanksgiving in which he had engaged during the time of his prosperity. (289) There is no remedy better ad...
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 CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG IN THE NIGHT,.... What had been an occasion of praising the Lord with a song, and which he had sung in the night seasons, when he was at leisure, his thoughts free, and h...
I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Ver. 6. _I call to remembrance my song in the night_] _i.e._ My former feelings and expe...
_I have considered the days of old_ The mighty works of God, wrought for his people in former times, if by that means I could get any comfort. _I call to remembrance my song in the night_ The many and...
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...
I call to remembrance my song in the night, when a feeling of happy gratitude caused him to use even the night season for anthems of praise; I COMMUNE WITH MINE OWN HEART, meditating in the seclusion...
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...
I CALL TO REMEMBRANCE MY SONG IN THE NIGHT, the many and great mercies and favours of God vouchsafed by him to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to adore him, and sing his praises not only...
Psalms 77:6 remembrance H2142 (H8799) song H5058 night H3915 meditate H7878 (H8799) heart H3824 spirit H7307 search...
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 call to remembrance my song in the night._ THE SONG IN THE NIGHT Among all those pains and pleasures which make up so large a part of every human lot, none are more real and more vivid than the pa...
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 77:4 The agonizing question that keeps the singer awake at night (vv. Psalms 77:4) is whether God will SPURN his people fo
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 Corinthians 11:28; Acts 16:25; Ecclesiastes 1:16; Habakkuk 3:17;...