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Remembering God’s Help for Israel

For the music director, on Jeduthun.[a]

Of Asaph. A psalm.[b]

77 
I cry out with my voice to God;

with my voice to God, that he may hear me.

2 In the day I have trouble, I seek[c] the Lord.

At night my hand stretches out continually;[d]

my soul refuses to be comforted.

3 I remember God and I groan loudly;

I meditate and my spirit grows faint.

4 You hold open my eyelids.

I am troubled and cannot speak.

5 I think about the days from long ago,

the years of ancient times.

6 I remember my song in the night.

With my heart I meditate,

and my spirit searches to understand.

7 Will the Lord reject us forever,

and will he never be pleased with us again?

8 Has his loyal love ceased forever?

Is his promise[e] ended throughout generations?

9 Has God forgotten to have compassion?

Or has he closed off his mercies in anger? Selah

10 So I said, “This pierces me—[f]

the right hand of the Most High has changed.”

11 I will remember the deeds of Yah.[g]

Surely I will remember your wonders[h] from long ago.

12 I will also muse on all your work,

and meditate on your deeds.

13 O God, your way is distinctive.[i]

Who is a great god like our God?

14 You are the God who works wonders;[j]

you have made known your might among the peoples.

15 With your arm you redeemed your people,

the children of Jacob and Joseph. Selah

16 Waters saw you, O God;

waters saw you and they trembled.

Surely the deeps shook.

17 The clouds poured out water.

The skies thundered.[k]

Your arrows also flew about.[l]

18 The sound of your thunder was in the whirlwind;[m]

lightnings lit the world;

the earth shook and quaked.

19 Your way was through the sea,

and your path[n] through many waters.

Yet your footprints were not discerned.[o]

20 You led your people like a flock

by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 77:1 One of David’s musicians (1 Chr 16:41)
  2. Psalm 77:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  3. Psalm 77:2 Or “make supplication to”
  4. Psalm 77:2 Literally “it does not grow weary”
  5. Psalm 77:8 Hebrew “word”
  6. Psalm 77:10 Or “this is my sickness”
  7. Psalm 77:11 A shortened form of “Yahweh”
  8. Psalm 77:11 Hebrew “wonder”
  9. Psalm 77:13 Or “holy” or “set apart”
  10. Psalm 77:14 Hebrew “wonder”
  11. Psalm 77:17 Literally “gave voice”
  12. Psalm 77:17 Literally “walked back and forth”
  13. Psalm 77:18 Or “in your chariot wheel”
  14. Psalm 77:19 According to the reading tradition (Qere)
  15. Psalm 77:19 Hebrew “were not known”