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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 77 To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. Jeduthun was the name of the chief musician, to whom this psalm was inscribed and sent; see 1 Chronicles 25:1, though Aben Ezra takes it to be the first word of some song, to the tune of which this was sung; and the Midrash interprets it of the subject of the psalm,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I cried unto God with my voice,.... Which is to be understood of prayer, and that vocal, and which is importunate and fervent, being made in distress; see Psalms 3:4, or "my voice was unto God" (h), "and I cried"; it was directed to him, and expressed in a very loud and clamorous way: even unto God with my voice; or "my voice was unto God"; which...
Matthew Henry - Complete Commentary - Matthew Henry
This psalm, according to the method of many other psalms, begins with sorrowful complaints but ends with comfortable encouragements. The complaints seem to be of personal grievances, but the encouragements relate to the public concerns of the church, so that it is not certain whether it was penned upon a personal or a public account. If they were...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. The use of the voice in prayer is not essential; but usually, when men grow earnest, they use the voice as well as the mind. It was because of the intensity of his prayer that the psalmist felt compelled to cry, not to use stilted, stately language, but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. It was only a cry; a cry monotonous, redoubled, and full of sorrow. Yet the Lord gave ear unto him who cried. There were some who would have stopped their ears, and have got out of the way, for the sound made them melancholy, and they could not bear it; but the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. You see, he cried, and he cried again, and at his second call the door of mercy was opened to him. God sometimes makes petitioners wait that they may become more earnest, and that they may really feel the value of the thing they are seeking. So Asaph says, “I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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 was wrung with anguish, but the cry which was the weakness of the flesh was, by divine grace, turned upward, and so became the strength of his grace. He cried, but...
Spurgeon - Treasury of David - Charles H. Spurgeon
Ver. 1. I cried unto God with my voice. This Psalm has much sadness in it, but we may be sure it will end well, for it begins with prayer, and prayer never has an ill issue. Asaph did not run to man but to the Lord, and to him he went, not with studied, stately, stilted words, but with a cry, the natural, unaffected, unfeigned expression of pain....
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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 time for prayer, James 5:13, all men have their trouble, but the people of God more especially; and there are some particular times in which they...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: This is the best place to go in the day of your trouble. Psa_77:2. My sore ran in the night, A better rendering would be, My hand was stretched out in the night.” The psalmist continued to pray. Psa_77:2. And ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. Rightly so, if the comfort came from man, if the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: That was a very wise thing to do; where else should he go, in the day of trouble, but to him who sent the trouble, to him who could help him to bear the trouble, to him who could sanctify the trouble, to him who could, if he pleased, remove the trouble? “In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord.” I...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
My sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. I remembered God, and was troubled: ‘Yet he says that he sought God. It is a grand thing when your faith leads you to seek God, even though he troubles you. It is better to knock at God’s door when he is angry than to go to any other door. Even if he shuts the door in your...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. He could not sleep, so he took to prayer. Which is the greater mercy, —prayer or sleep, — I cannot say. In the psalmist’s case, I should suppose that prayer just then was better than sleep. His trouble so pressed upon him, that it...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
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. He would not take the common comfort which friendly words would have yielded him: his case was so desperate that he must have divine comfort, and nothing else. I will not be comforted till Jesus comfort me, and this is a very good...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
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, notwithstanding so much kindness; and when he called this to mind it troubled him; or when he remembered the grace and goodness of God to him in time...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: What! trouble even from remembering God? Then this is trouble indeed. And yet this has been the experience of the saints of God many a time: I remembered God,” his holiness, his justice, my offenses against him, and was troubled.” Psa_77:3. I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Turned over, overwhelmed;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. What God did with others of his people in their times of trouble, how he rescued them, the splendor of his power in the ages long since gone, —these are among the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: God is the fountain of all comfort, yet there are times when even a godly man can find no comfort in God. Asaph perhaps remembered the dark side of God’s attributes. Justice seemed to stand over him with a drawn sword. Holiness frowned upon him. Power threatened to crush him. Truth stood up to condemn him. He...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I remembered God, and was troubled: Yet it was the right thing to do to remember God — the most comfortable thing in the world, and though it failed at first, it did not fail in the long run, Psa_77:3. I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. It is no new thing, then, for the best of God’s people to be in the deepest trouble. The path which...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Selah. Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. Turned through the experience of thy people written in thy Word to see if ever thou didst forsake one of them.