Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible
Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes, &c.— Thou didst keep the watches of mine eyes. I was troubled, and spake not.
Thou holdest mine eyes, &c.— Thou didst keep the watches of mine eyes. I was troubled, and spake not.
Verse Psalms 77:4. _THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING_] Literally, _thou keepest_ _the watches of mine eyes _- my grief is so great that I cannot sleep. _I AM SO TROUBLED THAT I CANNOT SPEAK._] This sho...
THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING - literally, “Thou holdest the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “waking,” “eyelids.” Probably that is the true idea. The eyel...
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....
EYES. eyelids; or, Thou keepest mine eyelids from closing....
Thou heldest open the lids of mine eyes: I was perplexed, and could not speak. The word rendered _waking_in A.V., _watching_in R.V., probably means the _guards_or _lids_of the eyes. The general sense...
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...
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...
MINE EYES WAKING] rather, 'the guards of my eyes.' The eyelids are kept from closing....
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...
THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING. — Rather, _Thou hast closed the guards of my eyes — i.e.,_ my eyelids. The Authorised Version mistakes the noun. _guards,_ for a participle, and mistranslates it by the...
_[Psalms 77:5]_ אָ֭חַזְתָּ שְׁמֻרֹ֣ות עֵינָ֑י נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי וְ...
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...
Thou holdest mine eyes (c) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. (c) Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping....
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...
_THE PSALM OF THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT_ ‘Thou holdest mine eyes waking.’ Psalms 77:4 I. THE POET WAS IN TROUBLE, ON WHAT OCCASION CANNOT NOW BE KNOWN, NOR CAN WE TELL WHO WROTE THE POEM, OR AT WHAT PERI...
4._Thou hast held the watches of my eyes. _(288) This verse is to the same effect with the preceding. The Psalmist affirms that he spent whole nights in watching, because God granted him no relief. Th...
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 HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING,.... Or, "the watches", or rather "keepers of the eyes" m; the eyebrows, which protect the eyes; these were held, so that he could not shut them, and get any sleep; so R....
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Ver. 4. _Thou holdest mine eyes waking_] Thou holdest the watches of mine eyes, that is, mine eyebrows, saith the Chaldee, so that...
_Thou holdest mine eyes waking_ By those bitter and continual griefs, and those perplexing and distressing thoughts and cares, which thou excitest within me. _I am so troubled that I cannot speak_ The...
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...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking, holding the lids of his eyes open, depriving him of sleep on account of the misery which he felt; I AM SO TROUBLED THAT I CANNOT SPEAK, he is speechless from the excessi...
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...
THOU HOLDEST MINE EYES WAKING, by those sharp and continual griefs, and those perplexing and tormenting thoughts and cares, which from time to time thou stirrest up in me. I AM SO TROUBLED THAT I CANN...
Psalms 77:4 hold H270 (H8804) eyelids H5869 open H8109 troubled H6470 (H8738) speak H1696 (H8762) holde
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...
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...
Esther 6:1; Job 2:13; Job 6:3; Job 7:13; Psalms 6:6...
Waking — By continual grief....