Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Psalms 77:2
My sore ran in the night, &c.— My hand was spread, or stretched out in the night, and remitted not. Houbigant. Green renders it, In the night mine eye trickled down without ceasing.
My sore ran in the night, &c.— My hand was spread, or stretched out in the night, and remitted not. Houbigant. Green renders it, In the night mine eye trickled down without ceasing.
Verse Psalms 77:2. _MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, AND CEASED NOT_] This is a most unaccountable translation; the literal meaning of ידי נגרה _yadi niggerah_, which we translate _my sore ran_, is, _my han...
IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE I SOUGHT THE LORD - Compare the notes at Psalms 50:15. This trouble may have been either mental or bodily; that is, it may have arisen from some form of disease, or it may hav...
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....
THE LORD*. One of the 134 places where the _Sopherim_ altered Jehovah to Adonai. See App-32. MY SORE RAN. Hebrew hand was outstretched: i.e. in prayer. CEASED NOT: i.e. to be outstretched. MY SOUL....
The Psalmist relates how, under the pressure of calamity, he could find no consolation even in prayer....
(Thus) in the day of my distress I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted....
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...
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I SOUGHT THE LORD - rather, 'I seek the Lord.' MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT, AND...
77:2 out (b-15) Or 'was poured out,' or, 'my sore ran.'...
MY SORE RAN] RV 'my hand was stretched out,' in the attitude of prayer....
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...
MY SORE RAN ... — The text of this verse is evidently faulty. As it stands it is unintelligible. _My hand was poured out and grew not dull_ (like a corpse). The LXX. and Vulg. have, “with my hands aga...
_[Psalms 77:3]_ בְּ יֹ֥ום צָרָתִי֮ אֲדֹנָ֪י דָּ֫רָ֥שְׁתִּי...
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...
Propositions. Deep and mysterious sayings. By this it appears, that the historical facts of ancient times, commemorated in this psalm, were deep and mysterious; as being figures of great truths appert...
Every verse tends more and more to confirm the foregoing observation: Being in an agony (saith the evangelist), he prayed more earnestly, and the sweat of his face was as it were great drops of blood...
2._I sought the Lord in the day of my trouble. _In this verse he expresses more distinctly the grievous and hard oppression to which the Church was at that time subjected. There is, however, some ambi...
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...
IN THE DAY OF MY TROUBLE I SOUGHT THE LORD,.... Not the creature, for help, and creature amusements to drive away trouble, but the Lord, in private, by prayer and supplication; a time of trouble is a...
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. Ver. 2. _In the day of my trouble_] The time of affliction is the time of suppli...
_In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord_ Being afflicted, he prayed, James 5:13, and being in an agony he prayed the more fervently: _he cried unto God._ He did not apply to the diversion of busin...
In the day of my trouble, at the time when affliction beset him strongly, I SOUGHT THE LORD, the All-powerful; MY SORE RAN IN THE NIGHT AND CEASED NOT, rather, my hand is stretched out in the night, w...
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...
MY SORE: _ Heb._ my hand...
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...
MY SORE RAN: _the hand_ in the Hebrew tongue, and Scripture use, is oft put for a blow or stroke given by the hand. Heb. _My hand_, or _hands_, (the singular number being frequently put for the plural...
Psalms 77:2 day H3117 trouble H6869 sought H1875 (H8804) Lord H136 hand H3027 out H5064 (H8738) night...
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...
_My soul refused to be comforted._ REFUSING TO BE COMFORTED I. When a man’s soul refuses to be comforted, possibly he may be right. He may have a great spiritual sorrow, and some one, who does not at...
_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...
2 Chronicles 6:28; 2 Corinthians 12:7; 2 Corinthians 12:8; 2 Kings 19:15;...
Night — Which to others was a time of rest and quietness....