Psalms 77

²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

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

³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

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.

⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Waking - By continual grief.

⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

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

⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

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.

⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

Cut off - His peculiar people.

¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

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.

¹³Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

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

¹⁶The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

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

¹⁷The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

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

¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

Not known - Because the water returned and covered them.

²⁰Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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