“ Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? ”
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? - The word rendered “clean gone” means to fail; to fail utterly. The idea is, Can it be that the compassion of God has become exhausted - that no more mercy is t...
Is his (f) mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore? (f) As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he exhorts himself to patience.
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...
mercy . lovingkindness, or grace. promise . word. Put by Figure of speech Metonymy (of Cause), App-6, for the promise given by it.
DISCOURSE: 630 DESPONDENCY DEPICTED AND REPROVED Psalms 77:7-10 . Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for...
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore? For evermore? - לדר ודר ledor vador, "to generation and generation." From race to race. Shall no mercy be shown even to the rem...
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more? -The contrast of the past with the sad present suggests the question, Has God, as appearances would imply, completely cast o...
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...
(7-9) The self-questionings here follow as they rise sigh after sigh in the poet’s heart. God’s silences have always been more appalling to the human spirit than even the most terrible of His manifes...
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...
These are blessed inquiries, and all tend to lead the soul to God, and to induce the happy issue in which the questions end. No, God hath not cast off his people whom he foreknew. God hath not, God w...
Is his mercy clean gone for ever ?.... Or "his grace" q; and mercy is no other than grace to objects in misery; Unbelief says it is gone, that no more will be shown, and that the treasures of it are...
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise fail for evermore? Ver. 8. Is his mercy clean gone for ever? ] They that go down into the pit (of despair) cannot hope for God's truth, Isaiah...
Will the Lord cast off for ever? “The psalmist now relates the process of his meditations, and of that controversy which arose in his heart between faith and distrust.” Most commentators suppose th...
Prevailing Melancholy; Mournful Supplications. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph. 1 I cried unto...
Are all the stores of his mercy quite spent? Doth he now cease to be what he hath styled himself, the Lord gracious and merciful, long-suffering, and abundant in goodness? Will he never more make goo...
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 77:7-10 The moral to be drawn from this Psalm is that in all troubles and adversities it is our own fault if we have not a light to guide and cheer us, and that the true remedy against desp...
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...
Isaiah 27:11 ; Jeremiah 15:18 ; Luke 16:25 ; Luke 16:26 ; Numbers 14:34 ; Numbers 23:19 ; Romans 9:6