Psalms 77:17 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. ”

Psalms 77:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The clouds poured out water - Margin, “The clouds were poured forth with water.” The translation in the text is the more correct. This is a description of a storm; but to what particular storm in...
Psalms 77:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a (l) sound: thine arrows also went abroad. (l) That is, thundered and lightninged.
Psalms 77:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXVII. Israel's Present Distress and Past Glory. Psalms 77:1-3 . The present distress. Psalms 77:1 . with my voice: i.e. with a loud voice. Psalms 77:4-15 . Past glory. Psalms 7...
Psalms 77:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

clouds . the thick or dark clouds. arrows. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Adjunct), App-6, for lightnings, mentioned below.
Psalms 77:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

17. The clouds poured out waters. As the noun מים, mayim, cannot be taken in the construct state, the verb, I have no doubt, is put transitively; but it makes little difference as to the...
Psalms 77:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The clouds poured out water - It appears from this that there was a violent tempest at the time of the passage...
Psalms 77:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. The clouds poured out water. So the English version rightly; not as margin, passively. The skies sen...
Psalms 77:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Book 3 There are two groups of Pss. in this book, Psalms 73-83 being Psalms of Asaph, and Psalms 84-88 (except 86) Psalms of the Sons of Korah. The likeness of the title of Psalms 89 to that of...
Psalms 77:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(16-20) The prominence given to Joseph is a feature common to the Asaphic psalm. With this magnificent lyric of the passage of the Red Sea comp. Habakkuk 3:10-11 . The narrative in Exodus says nothi...
Psalms 77:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 77:1-20 THE occasion of the profound sadness of the first part of this psalm may be inferred from the thoughts which brighten it into hope in the second. These were the memories of past nat...
Psalms 77:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

“The God That Doest Wonders” Psalms 77:11-20 Go back to the past. Consider the manner in which God has stood by His saints in the days of old, in the years of ancient time. What He did for them...
Psalms 77:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

This is a song of the healing of sorrow. It opens with the declaration of determination to cry to God, and then proceeds to explain the reason of this determination. Verse Psa 77:10 is the pivot on w...
Psalms 77:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What a beautiful and sublime manner of expression is here, in the waters seeing God. The prophet hath a similar thought: Was the Lord displeased against the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers...
Psalms 77:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

The clouds poured out water ,.... This, with some other circumstances which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair; but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there...
Psalms 77:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad. Ver. 17. The clouds poured out water, the skies, &c. ] Calvin taketh this to be a description of that hi...
Psalms 77:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The waters saw thee, O God They felt the visible effects of thy powerful presence. They were afraid And stood still, as men or beasts astonished commonly do. The clouds poured out water Namely,...
Psalms 77:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Acknowledgments of the Divine Majesty, of God's Wonders Wrought for Israel. 11 I will remember the works of the L ORD :...
Psalms 77:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

The clouds poured out water, when the Israelites passed over the sea; in respect whereof the Israelites are said to have been baptized in the cloud (i.e. sprinkled with water poured forth from th...
Psalms 77:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph .” Jeduthun was one of the leaders of sacred music in David’s time ( 1 Chronicles 16:41-42 ; 2 Chronicles 5:12 )....
Psalms 77:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

This Psalm is headed «To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun,» He was one of the great singers; there is opportunity given in the Psalms for each of the sinners to take his turn.; it does not do for any...
Psalms 77:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph. There is an uncertainty, whether Jeduthun were a master of music, or whether the name designate an instrument, or some air or term of mu...
Psalms 77:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and He gave ear unto me. The faculty of human thought The whole psalm may be used to illustrate the faculty of human thought. Throug...
Psalms 77:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION THIS psalm is the lament and expostulation with God of some afflicted person, perhaps Asaph, who speaks as the mouthpiece of his countrymen, complaining of Israel's apparent deserti...
Psalms 77:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Tribulation and Comfort of the Righteous. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun, at that time in charge of the Temple music, a psalm of Asaph, the psalm picturing the relief experienced by believ...
Psalms 77:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Samuel 22:15 ; Habakkuk 3:11 ; Psalms 144:6 ; Psalms 18:14 ; Psalms 68:8 ; Psalms 68:9
Psalms 77:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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

Psalms 77:17 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Arno Geneva Study Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 77:17 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 77:17 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 77:17 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 77:17 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Psalms 77:17 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 77:17 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 77:17 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 77:17 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 77:17 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 77:17 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes