Bible Commentaries

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Psalms 77

Verse 2

Night - Which to others was a time of rest and quietness.

Verse 3

Troubled - Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed - So far was I from finding relief.

Verse 4

Waking - By continual grief.

Verse 5

The days - The mighty works of God in former times.

Verse 6

My song - The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night.

Verse 7

Cut off - His peculiar people.

Verse 10

I said - These suspicions of God's faithfulness proceed from the weakness of my faith. The years - The years wherein God hath done great and glorious works, which are often ascribed to God's right - hand.

Verse 13

In holiness - God is holy and just, and true in all his works.

Verse 16

Afraid - And stood still, as men astonished, do.

Verse 17

Poured - When the Israelites passed over the sea. Arrows - Hail - stones or lightnings.

Verse 19

Not known - Because the water returned and covered them.

Verse 20

Leddest - First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep.

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