Psalms 77:9 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. ”

• Psalms 77:9 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious? - Has he passed over mercy in administering his government? Has he ceased to remember that man needs mercy? Has he forgotten that this is an attribute of his ow...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

  GOD. Hebrew El. App-4. Selah . Connecting all this misery with the only sure remedy occupation with God: and passing from "I" and "my" to "Thou" and "Thy". (App-66.)

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• Psalms 77:9 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

  9. Hath God forgotten to be merciful? The prophet still continues debating with himself the same subject. His object, however, is not to overthrow his faith, but rather to raise it up. He do...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

  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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. Hath God - in anger shut up his tender mercies? - The tender mercies of God are the source whence all his kindne...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious— It is worth our while to observe the train of thoughts which this afflicted good man pursued, and what were the reflections in which he rested at last, as his bes...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

  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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

  (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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

  “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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious ,.... He has not, is it possible that he should? as the Targum; it is not; he cannot forget the purposes of his grace and mercy, nor the covenant and promises of it...

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• Psalms 77:9 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah. Ver. 9. Hath God forgotten to be gracious? ] So it seemeth sometimes to those that are long afflicted and sho...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

  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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

  Prevailing Melancholy; Mournful Supplications. To the chief musician, to Jeduthun. A psalm of Asaph.       1 I cried unto...

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• Psalms 77:9 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

  Hath God forgotten to be gracious, because he hath so long disused it? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies, so as they can never flow forth, no, not to his own people?

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Sermon Bible Commentary

  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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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...

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• Psalms 77:9 - 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 77:9 - 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 77:9 - 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 77:9 - 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 77:9 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  1 John 3:17 ; Isaiah 40:27 ; Isaiah 49:14 ; Isaiah 49:15 ; Isaiah 63:15 ; Luke 13:25-28 ; Romans 11:32

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