Psalms 77 - Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Night — Which to others was a time of rest and quietness.

Troubled — Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed — So far was I from finding relief.

Waking — By continual grief.

The days — The mighty works of God in former times.

My song — The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night.

Cut off — His peculiar people.

I said — These suspicions of God's faithfulness proceed from the weakness of my faith. The years — The years wherein God hath done great and glorious works, which are often ascribed to God's right — hand.

In holiness — God is holy and just, and true in all his works.

Afraid — And stood still, as men astonished, do.

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

Not known — Because the water returned and covered them.

Leddest — First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep.