Waking — By continual grief.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking - literally, “Thou holdest the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “wakin...
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 sleep...
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 voi...
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 who...
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...
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...
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. Th...
Mine eyes waking ] rather, 'the guards of my eyes.' The eyelids are kept from closing.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking. — Rather, Thou hast closed the guards of my eyes — i.e., my eyelids. The Authorised Version mistakes the noun. gu...
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...
“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...
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 thi...
There is somewhat very singular, and, at first reading, very strange, in these expressions. Doth the remembrance of God, as a gracious covenant God,...
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 kno...
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...
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...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking By those bitter and continual griefs, and those perplexing and distressing thoughts and cares, which thou excitest wi...
Prevailing Melancholy; Mournful Supplications. To the chief musician, to Je...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking, by those sharp and continual griefs, and those perplexing and tormenting thoughts and cares, which from time to time...
INTRODUCTION Superscription.—“To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, a Psalm of Asaph .” Jeduthun was one of the leaders of sacred music in David’s ti...
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...
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...
This «Psalm of Asaph» has a mournful tone in it; at times the writer is in the deeps; but we may be quite sure that be will end the Psalm cheerfully...
Psalms 77:1 . I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. The writer was in very deep trouble. The trou...
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...
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...
EXPOSITION THIS psalm is the lament and expostulation with God of some afflicted person, perhaps Asaph, who speaks as the mouthpiece of his co...
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, th...
Thou holdest mine eyes waking, holding the lids of his eyes open, depriving him of sleep on account of the misery which he felt; I am so troubled th...
Esther 6:1 ; Job 2:13 ; Job 6:3 ; Job 7:13-15 ; Psalms 6:6
4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.