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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 call to remembrance my song in the night,.... What had been an occasion of praising the Lord with a song, and which he had sung in the night seasons, when he was at leisure, his thoughts free, and he retired from company; or it now being night with him, he endeavoured to recollect what had been matter of praise and thankfulness to him, and tried to sing one of those songs now, in order to...
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 call to remembrance my song in the night: “How I used to sing like the nightingale, with the thorn at my breast, I call that to remembrance.” But we cannot always sing old songs. Old experiences may have but little fire in their ashes, though often in their ashes live their wonted fires. Psa_77:6. I commune with mine own, heart: A very proper thing to do; but not much comfort generally comes of...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night- “How I was once like a nightingale, and learnt to sing with a thorn at my breast; how, in former times, I triumphed in the hour of trouble and affliction.” It is good to recollect all this; for, though past experience will not do to live upon, yet sometimes we are like the men with their barges when they push ‘backwards to send the barge forward. We may...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Come, what think you? Will such a loving, faithful God as ours cast off for ever? Can you harbour such a thought concerning him? Will he be favorable no more after all the favor he has already shown? Can he change? Will he deny himself? Think you that God will...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night. I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. He looked back into the records of ancient history to see if God did ever forsake a praying man. He thought upon his own experience, and he recollected how, when it was night with him before, God made him to sing like a...
Charles H. Spurgeon
I call to remembrance my song in the night: To see whether thou didst forsake me in days gone by — marked my past experience of thy faithfulness.
Charles H. Spurgeon
I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Will he be favorable no more? Very proper questions to put. They answer themselves when we put them plainly, but...