Psalms 77:18 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. ”

• Psalms 77:18 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven - Compare the notes at Psalms 29:1-11 . The word rendered “heaven” here - גלגל galgal - means properly “a wheel,” as of a chariot, Isaiah 5:28 ;...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  was in the heaven. Hebrew. galgal . rolled along. The. Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulg, read "Thy". lightened . illumined.

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• Psalms 77:18 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

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• Psalms 77:18 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven ( bagalgal ( H1534 )) - literally,...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven ,.... Thunder is the voice of God, Job 37:5 this is heard in "the orb" b, or the air, so called, because spherical; the Targum is "the voice of thy thun...

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• Psalms 77:18 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  The voice of thy thunder [was] in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook. Ver. 18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven ] Heb. in the sphere or round or...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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,...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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 :...

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• Psalms 77:18 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  This tempest is not particularly recorded in its proper place, yet it may well be gathered from what is said Exodus 14:24,25 , and is in effect acknowledged by Josephus in his history. And this is...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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 )....

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• Psalms 77:18 - Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

  The Book of Psalms, though it is divinely inspired, is also marvelously human; it is everywhere instinct with life, and life in its most, sympathetic forms. However glad you are, there is always a Ps...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:18 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  2 Samuel 22:14 ; 2 Samuel 22:8 ; Exodus 19:16 ; Exodus 19:18 ; Habakkuk 3:4 ; Job 37:1-5 ; Matthew 27:51 ; Matthew 28:2 ; Psalms 29:3-9 ; Psalms 97:4 ; Revelation 11:19 ; Revelation 18:1...

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