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Psalms 77

1 The Prophet in the name of the Church rehearseth the greatness of his affliction, and his grievous tentations, 6 Whereby he was driven to this end to consider his former conversation, 11 And the continual course of God’s works in the preservation of his servants, and so he confirmeth his faith against these tentations.
¶ For the excellent musician *Jeduthún. A Psalme committed to Asáph.
1.My avoyce came to God, when I cryed: my voice came to God, and he heard me.
2.In the day of my trouble I soght the Lord: ^my sore ran and ceased not in the night: my soul refused comfort.
3.I did think upon God, and was btroubled: I prayed, and my spirit was ful of anguish. Sélah.
4.Thou kepest mine eies cwaking: I was astonied and could not speak.
5.Then I considered the daies of olde, and the years of ancient time.
6.I called to remembrance my dsong in the night: I communed with mine own heart, and my spirit searched ediligently.
7.Wil the Lord absent him self for ever? and wil he shewe no more favour?
8.Is his fmercie cleane gone for ever? doeth his promise fail for ever more?
9.Hath God forgotten to be merciful? hath he shutup his tender mercies in displeasure? Sélah.
10.And I said, This is my gdeath: yet I remembered the years of the right hand of the most High.
11.I remembered the works of the Lord: certainly I remembered thy wonders of olde.
12.I did also meditate all thy works, and did devise of thine Acts,
13.Thy way, ô God, is hin the Sanctuarie: who is so great a iGod as our God!
14.Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy power among the people.
15.Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arm, even the sons of Jaakób and Joséph. Sélah.
16.The kwaters saw thee, ô God: the waters saw thee, and were afraid: yea, the depths trembled.
17.The clouds powred out water: the heavens gave a lsound: yea, thine arrows went abroad.
18.The voice of thy thunder was round about: the lightenings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
19.Thy waie is in the Sea, and thy paths in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not mknown.
20.Thou didest lead thy people like sheep by the hand of Mosés and Aarón.

Notes

1-a.
The Prophet teaches us by his example to flee unto God for help in our necessities.
2-^.
Or, my hand was stretched out.
3-b.
He shows that we must patiently abide, although God deliver us not out of our troubles at the first cry.
4-c.
Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.
6-d.
Of thanksgiving, which I was accustomed to sing in my prosperity.
6-e.
Both the causes why I was chastened, and when my sorrows should have an end.
8-f.
As if he should say, It is impossible: whereby he exhorts himself to patience.
10-g.
Though I first doubted of my life, yet considering that God had his years, that is, change of times, and was accustomed also to lift up them, whom he has beaten, I took heart again.
13-h.
That is, in heaven, whereunto we must ascend by faith, if we will know the ways of God.
13-i.
He condemns all that worship anything save the only true God, whose glory appears through the world.
16-k.
He declares, wherein the power of God was declared, when he delivered the Israelites through the red Sea.
17-l.
That is, thundered and lightened.
19-m.
For when you had brought over your people, the water returned to her course and the enemies that thought to have followed them, could not pass through, Ex. 14.27.