“ Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. ”
Thou holdest mine eyes waking - literally, “Thou holdest the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “waking,” “eyelids.” Probably that is the true idea. The...
Thou holdest mine eyes (c) waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. (c) Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping.
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...
eyes . eyelids; or, Thou keepest mine eyelids from closing.
4. Thou hast held the watches of my eyes. (288) This verse is to the same effect with the preceding. The Psalmist affirms that he spent whole nights in watching, because God granted him no...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Thou holdest mine eyes waking - Literally, thou keepest the watches of mine eyes - my grief is so great that I cannot sleep. I am...
Thou holdest mine eyes, &c.— Thou didst keep the watches of mine eyes. I was troubled, and spake not.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. -His sleepless nights, and his inability to speak, are attributed to the remembrance of the sad contrast which God's presen...
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...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking. — Rather, Thou hast closed the guards of my eyes — i.e., my eyelids. The Authorised Version mistakes the noun. guards, for a participle, and mistranslates it by t...
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...
“Doth His Promise Fail?” Psalms 77:1-10 There is a strong resemblance between this psalm and Habakkuk 3:1-19 . It may be divided at the Selahs. The psalmist's anguish , Psalms 77:1-3 . It is...
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...
There is somewhat very singular, and, at first reading, very strange, in these expressions. Doth the remembrance of God, as a gracious covenant God, tend to increase affliction? Surely every remembra...
THE PSALM OF THE SLEEPLESS NIGHT ‘Thou holdest mine eyes waking.’ Psalms 77:4 I. The poet was in trouble, on what occasion cannot now be known, nor can we tell who wrote the poem, or at what...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking ,.... Or, "the watches", or rather "keepers of the eyes" m; the eyebrows, which protect the eyes; these were held, so that he could not shut them, and get any sleep; so...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. Ver. 4. Thou holdest mine eyes waking ] Thou holdest the watches of mine eyes, that is, mine eyebrows, saith the Chaldee, so th...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking By those bitter and continual griefs, and those perplexing and distressing thoughts and cares, which thou excitest within me. I am so troubled that I cannot speak Th...
Prevailing Melancholy; Mournful Supplications. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph. 1 I cried unto...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking, by those sharp and continual griefs, and those perplexing and tormenting thoughts and cares, which from time to time thou stirrest up in me. I am so troubled that I...
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 )....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Esther 6:1 ; Job 2:13 ; Job 6:3 ; Job 7:13-15 ; Psalms 6:6
Waking — By continual grief.