Psalms 77:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Psalms 77:3 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 142:2-3
I poured out my complaint before him; I shewed before him my trouble. …
Psalms 61:2
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
Job 31:23
For destruction from God was a terror to me, and by reason of his highness I could not endure.
Psalms 42:5
Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted in me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance.
Lamentations 3:39
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-10)

We have here the lively portraiture of a good man under prevailing melancholy, fallen into and sinking in that horrible pit and that miry clay, but struggling to get out. Drooping saints, that are of a sorrowful spirit, may here as in a glass see their own faces. The conflict which the psalmist had with his griefs and fears seems to have been over when he penned this record of it; for he says (Ps.…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3-9. His sad state contrasted with former joys. was troubled--literally, “violently agitated,” or disquieted (Psa 39:6; 41:5). my spirit was overwhelmed--or, “fainted” (Psa 107:5; Jon 2:7).