Psalms:77

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* «To the chief Musician , to Jeduthun , A Psalm of Asaph .» I cried unto God with my (note :)The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God for help in our necessities .(:note ) voice , [even ] unto God with my voice ; and he gave ear unto me . * In the day of my trouble I sought ye Lord : my sore ranne and ceased not in the night : my soule refused comfort . * I remembered God , and was (note :)He shows that we must patiently abide though God does not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry .(:note ) troubled : I complained , and my spirit was overwhelmed . Selah . * Thou holdest mine eyes (note :)Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his eyes from sleeping .(:note ) waking : I am so troubled that I cannot speak . * Then I considered the daies of olde , and the yeeres of ancient time . * I call to remembrance my (note :)Of thanksgiving , which I was accustomed to sing in my prosperity .(:note ) song in the night : I commune with mine own heart : and my spirit made Both the reasons why I was chastened , and when my sorrows would end . diligent search . * Will the Lorde absent him selfe for euer ? and will he shewe no more fauour ? * Is his (note :)As if he would say , It is impossible : by which he exhorts himself to patience .(:note ) mercy clean gone for ever ? doth [his ] promise fail for evermore ? * Hath God forgotten to be mercifull ? hath he shut vp his teder mercies in displeasure ? Selah . * And I said , This [is ] my (note :)Though I first doubted of my life , yet considering that God had his years , that is , change of times , and was accustomed also to lift up them whom he had beaten , I took heart again .(:note ) infirmity : [but I will remember ] the years of the right hand of the most High . * I remembred the workes of the Lorde : certainely I remembred thy wonders of olde . * I did also meditate all thy woorkes , and did deuise of thine actes , saying , * Thy way , O God , [is ] (note :)That is in heaven , to which we must ascend by faith , if we will know the ways of God .(:note ) in the sanctuary : who [is so ] great a He condemns all who worship anything save the only true God , whose glory appears through the world . God as [our ] God ? * Thou art ye God that doest wonders : thou hast declared thy power among the people . * Thou hast redeemed thy people with thine arme , euen the sonnes of Iaakob &amp ; Ioseph . Selah . * The (note :)He declares how the power of God was declared when he delivered the Israelites through the Red Sea .(:note ) waters saw thee , O God , the waters saw thee ; they were afraid : the depths also were troubled . * The clouds poured out water : the skies sent out a (note :)That is , thundered and lightninged .(:note ) sound : thine arrows also went abroad . * The voyce of thy thunder was rounde about : the lightnings lightened the worlde : the earth trembled and shooke . * Thy way [is ] in the sea , and thy path in the great waters , and thy footsteps are not (note :)For when you had brought over your people , the water returned to her course , and the enemies who thought to have followed them , could not pass through , ( Exo_14:28-29 ).(:note ) known . * Thou diddest leade thy people like sheepe by the hand of Moses and Aaron .

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