American Standard Version
Psalms 77:8
8Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever?Doth his promise fail for evermore?
Psalms 77:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- New International Version (NIV)Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Has his steadfast love forever ceased? Are his promises at an end for all time?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Has His mercy ceased forever? Has His promise failed forevermore?
Context of Psalms 77:8
6I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart; And my spirit maketh diligent search. 7Will the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more? Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore? 9Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? [Selah 10And I said, This is my infirmity; But I will rememberthe years of the right hand of the Most High.
Read all of Psalms 77Psalms 77:8 word by word
הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 77:8
- Isaiah 27:11When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.
- Numbers 14:34After the number of the days in which ye spied out the land, even forty days, for every day a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my alienation.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, Neither the son of man, that he should repent: Hath he said, and will he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and will he not make it good?
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou indeed be unto me as a deceitful brook, as waters that fail?
- Romans 9:6Butit isnot as though the word of God hath come to nought. For they are not all Israel, that are of Israel:
Commentaries on Psalms 77:8
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 8For evermore? - ודר לדר ledor vador, "to generation and generation." From race to race. Shall no mercy be shown even to the remotest generation of the children of the offenders?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Is his mercy clean gone for ever? - The word rendered “clean gone” means to fail; to fail utterly. The idea is, Can it be that the compassion of God has become exhausted - that no more mercy is to be shown to mankind - that henceforth all is to be left to stern and severe justice? What would the world be if this were so! What must be the condition of mankind if mercy were no more to be shown to the race! Doth his promise fail for evermore? - Margin, as in…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 7-9The psalmist questions his status before God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-93-9. 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).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 77
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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