1 For the excellent musician Ieduthun. A Psalme committed to Asaph. My voyce came to God, when I cryed: my voyce came to God, and he heard me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord: my sore ranne and ceased not in the night: my soule refused comfort. 3 I did thinke vpon God, and was troubled: I praied, and my spirit was full of anguish. Selah. 4 Thou keepest mine eyes waking: I was astonied and could not speake. 5 Then I considered the daies of olde, and the yeeres of ancient time. 6 I called to remembrance my song in the night: I communed with mine owne heart, and my spirit searched diligently. 7 Will the Lord absent him selfe for euer? and will he shewe no more fauour? 8 Is his mercie cleane gone for euer? doeth his promise faile for euermore? 9 Hath God forgotten to be mercifull? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure? Selah. 10 And I sayde, This is my death: yet I remembred the yeeres of the right hand of the most High. 11 I remembred the workes of the Lord: certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde. 12 I did also meditate all thy woorkes, and did deuise of thine actes, saying, 13 Thy way, O God, is in the Sanctuarie: who is so great a God as our God! 14 Thou art ye God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people. 15 Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme, euen the sonnes of Iaakob and Ioseph. Selah. 16 The waters sawe thee, O God: the waters sawe thee, and were afraide: yea, the depths trembled. 17 The cloudes powred out water: the heauens gaue a sounde: yea, thine arrowes went abroade. 18 The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about: the lightnings lightened the worlde: the earth trembled and shooke. 19 Thy way is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footesteps are not knowen. 20 Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
Psalm 77 Geneva Bible (1599)
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Notes on this text (2)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
- Original 16th-century spelling.
Cross references (20)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 3:4; Psalm 142:1–3; Psalm 50:1; Psalm 62:1; Psalm 39:1
- 2 Isaiah 26:9; Psalm 50:15; Isaiah 26:16; Genesis 37:35; Hebrews 5:7
- 3 Psalm 61:2; Psalm 142:2–3; Job 7:11; Job 31:23; Lamentations 3:39
- 4 Job 7:13–15; Psalm 6:6; Job 2:13; Job 6:3; Esther 6:1
- 5 Deuteronomy 32:7; Isaiah 51:9; Psalm 143:5; Psalm 44:1; Micah 7:14–15
- 6 Psalm 42:8; Psalm 4:4; Psalm 139:23–24; Lamentations 3:40; Job 35:10
- 7 Psalm 85:1; Lamentations 3:31–32; Psalm 89:46; Romans 11:1–2; Psalm 85:5
- 8 Numbers 23:19; Romans 9:6; 2 Peter 3:9; Luke 16:25–26; Numbers 14:34
- 9 Isaiah 49:14–15; Psalm 40:11; Luke 13:25–28; 1 John 3:17; Romans 11:32
- 10 Job 42:3; Exodus 15:6; Psalm 31:22; Mark 9:24; Habakkuk 3:2–13
- 11 Psalm 143:5; 1 Chronicles 16:12; Psalm 105:5; Isaiah 5:12; Psalm 28:5
- 12 Psalm 71:24; Psalm 145:11; Deuteronomy 6:7; Psalm 105:2; Psalm 104:34
- 13 Exodus 15:11; Psalm 73:17; Isaiah 40:25; Deuteronomy 32:31; Psalm 89:6–8
- 14 Daniel 6:27; Psalm 136:4; Exodus 15:11; Isaiah 51:9; Exodus 13:14
- 15 Deuteronomy 9:29; Exodus 6:6; Isaiah 63:9; Psalm 74:2; Deuteronomy 9:26
- 16 Exodus 14:21; Habakkuk 3:15; Joshua 3:15–16; Psalm 114:3–6; Habakkuk 3:8–10
- 17 Psalm 18:14; 2 Samuel 22:15; Judges 5:4; Psalm 144:6; Psalm 68:8–9
- 18 Psalm 97:4; Revelation 11:19; Matthew 27:51; Matthew 28:2; Judges 5:4
- 19 Exodus 14:28; Habakkuk 3:15; Nehemiah 9:11; Psalm 29:10; Psalm 97:2
- 20 Exodus 13:21; Psalm 78:52; Exodus 14:19; Isaiah 63:11–12; Psalm 80:1
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What the Fathers said
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“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).
The Jews are wont to glory in this Psalm which we have sung, saying, "Known in Judæa is God, in Israel great is the name of Him:" and to revile the Gentiles to whom God is not known, and to say that to themselves alone God is known; seeing that the Prophet saith, "Known in Judæa is God." In other …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)
The verse runs: "Shall God forget to be gracious? Shall He in anger shut up His tender mercies?" His anger, they say, would condemn all that are unworthy of everlasting happiness to endless punishment.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
… sent me," and "the Spirit came down from the Lord and guided them." And pray do not again understand by this guidance some humble service, for the Word witnesses that it was the work of God;--"Thou leddest thy people," it is said "like a flock," and "Thou that leadest Joseph like a flock," and "He led them on safely, so …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)
shall He shut up in His anger His tender mercies" as if the sentence of God were true of good men, false of bad men, or true of good men and wicked angels, but false of bad men.
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)
shall He shut up in His anger His tender mercies?" and then immediately subjoins, "And I said, Now I begin: this is the change wrought by the right hand of the Most High," he manifestly explained what he meant by the words, "Shall he shut up in His anger His tender mercies?" For God's anger is this mortal life, in …
Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)