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Psalm 77
77:1 For the music director, Jeduthun; a psalm of Asaph. I will cry out to God and call for help! I will cry out to God and he will pay attention to me. 77:2 In my time of trouble I sought the Lord. I kept my hand raised in prayer throughout the night. I refused to be comforted. 77:3 I said, “I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.” (Selah) 77:4 You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak. 77:5 I thought about the days of old, about ancient times. 77:6 I said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening. 77:7 I asked, “Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor? 77:8 Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever? 77:9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has his anger stifled his compassion?” 77:10 Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive. 77:11 I will remember the works of the Lord. Yes, I will remember the amazing things you did long ago! 77:12 I will think about all you have done; I will reflect upon your deeds!” 77:13 O God, your deeds are extraordinary! What god can compare to our great God? 77:14 You are the God who does amazing things; you have revealed your strength among the nations. 77:15 You delivered your people by your strength– the children of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah) 77:16 The waters saw you, O God, the waters saw you and trembled. Yes, the depths of the sea shook with fear. 77:17 The clouds poured down rain; the skies thundered. Yes, your arrows flashed about.
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics

Names, People and Places:
 · Asaph father of Joah, Hezekiah's recorder,son of Berechiah the Levite; music minister under David,father of Zichri; a Levite ancestor of some returnees,an official over the (Persian) king's forest in Judah
 · Jacob the second so of a pair of twins born to Isaac and Rebeccaa; ancestor of the 12 tribes of Israel,the nation of Israel,a person, male,son of Isaac; Israel the man and nation
 · Jeduthun a Levite whose descendants returned from exile
 · Joseph the husband of Mary and foster-father of Jesus,a Jewish man from Arimathea in whose grave the body of Jesus was laid,two different men listed as ancestors of Jesus,a man nominated with Matthias to take the place of Judas Iscariot as apostle,a son of Jacob and Rachel; the father of Ephraim and Manasseh and ruler of Egypt,a brother of Jesus; a son of Mary,a man who was a companion of Paul,son of Jacob and Rachel; patriarch of the tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh,a tribe, actually two tribes named after Joseph's sons, Ephraim and Manasseh,father of Igal, of Issachar, who helped spy out Canaan,son of Asaph the Levite; worship leader under Asaph and King David,a man who put away his heathen wife; an Israelite descended from Binnui,priest and head of the house of Shebaniah under High Priest Joiakim in the time of Nehemiah
 · Selah a musical notation for crescendo or emphasis by action (IBD)


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NET Notes: Psa 77:1 The perfect with vav (ו) consecutive is best taken as future here (although some translations render this as a past tense; cf. NEB, NIV). The ps...

NET Notes: Psa 77:2 Or “my soul.” The Hebrew term נֶפֶשׁ (nefesh) with a pronominal suffix is often equivalent to a pronou...

NET Notes: Psa 77:3 Heb “I will remember God and I will groan, I will reflect and my spirit will grow faint.” The first three verbs are cohortatives, the last...

NET Notes: Psa 77:4 The imperfect is used in the second clause to emphasize that this was an ongoing condition in the past.

NET Notes: Psa 77:5 Heb “the years of antiquity.”

NET Notes: Psa 77:6 Heb “I will remember my song in the night, with my heart I will reflect. And my spirit searched.” As in v. 4, the words of v. 6a are under...

NET Notes: Psa 77:7 As in vv. 4 and 6a, the words of vv. 7-9 are understood as a quotation of what the psalmist said earlier. Therefore the words “I asked” ar...

NET Notes: Psa 77:8 Heb “word,” which may refer here to God’s word of promise (note the reference to “loyal love” in the preceding line).

NET Notes: Psa 77:10 Heb “And I said, ‘This is my wounding, the changing of the right hand of the Most High.’” The form חַלּ...

NET Notes: Psa 77:11 The psalmist refuses to allow skepticism to win out. God has revealed himself to his people in tangible, incontrovertible ways in the past and the psa...

NET Notes: Psa 77:13 Heb “Who [is] a great god like God?” The rhetorical question assumes the answer, “No one!”

NET Notes: Psa 77:15 Heb “with [your] arm.”

NET Notes: Psa 77:16 The prefixed verbal form may be taken as a preterite or as an imperfect with past progressive force.

NET Notes: Psa 77:17 The lightning accompanying the storm is portrayed as the Lord’s “arrows” (see v. 18).

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