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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, which is followed by Jarchi, who explains it thus,...
John Gill
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary,.... Or "in holiness" (y); that is, is holy, so the Syriac version, and to which the Targum agrees. "O God, how holy are thy ways,'' see Psalms 145:17, or "in the sanctuary", the temple, the church of God, where he takes his walks, and manifests himself, and where the reasons of his providence, and dealing with his people, are opened and made known unto them,...
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 private troubles that he was groaning under, it...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Or, “in holiness.” God’s way is always a holy way, a righteous way. Psa_77:13. Who is so great a God as our God? When we think of the greatness of God, if we simply dwell upon his power, we make a mistake. The greatness of God lies mainly in his moral attributes, in his completeness, his wholeness, his holiness.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. Whenever the Hebrew mind was full of exulting joy concerning God’s greatness and might, it seemed inevitably to turn back to Egypt and the Red Sea. Just as we, believers in Jesus, love to sing the song of the Lamb, so did these old believers...
Charles H. Spurgeon
And talk of thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Or, “is in holiness.” God’s way is sometimes in the sea, but it is always a holy way. God never deals with his people, or with any of his creatures, unjustly or unrighteously. “I cannot trace God,” said Luther once, “but I can trust him;” and from that saying of his we have coined the phrase, “To trust him when you cannot trace him.”...
Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. See how the psalmist comforts himself with what God had done; and he went right back to the Red Sea for his illustration. Somehow, God’s people in the olden times always liked to sing the song of Moses; by a kind of instinct, they thought of the Red Sea, as if to remember the...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: Or better, “Thy way is in holiness.” What thou doest is right, my God. I feared and trembled, but now I know it is so.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Who is so great a God as our God? Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. Oh! if we could all tell out what God has done for us, we could prove it true that God has declared his strength among us; the might of his grace has he displayed in our case.