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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
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 past, and how it was with him now, that it was not...
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
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; without comfort, or hope of comfort. Psa_77:3....
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 face, still wait upon him. Though he may seem not...
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 things which the psalmist considered. It is well...
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 could not find any comfort, even in his God....
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 you are traveling, O mourner, is well marked with...
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.