Christian Standard Bible
Psalms 77:4
4You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak.
Psalms 77:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- New International Version (NIV)You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.
- English Standard Version (ESV)You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- New King James Version (NKJV)You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Context of Psalms 77:4
2I sought the Lord in my day of trouble. My hands were continually lifted up all night long; I refused to be comforted. 3I think of God; I groan; I meditate; my spirit becomes weak.Selah You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak. 5I consider days of old, years long past. 6At night I remember my music; I meditate in my heart, and my spirit ponders.
Read all of Psalms 77Psalms 77:4 word by word
אָ֭חַזְתָּ שְׁמֻר֣וֹת עֵינָ֑י נִ֝פְעַ֗מְתִּי וְלֹ֣א אֲדַבֵּֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 77:4
- Psalms 6:6I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.
- Esther 6:1That night sleep escaped the king, so he ordered the book recording daily events to be brought and read to the king.
- Job 7:13When I say, “My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,”
- Job 2:13Then they sat on the ground with him seven days and nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw that his suffering was very intense.
- Job 6:3For then it would outweigh the sand of the seas! That is why my words are rash.
Commentaries on Psalms 77:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4Thou holdest mine eyes waking - Literally, thou keepest the watches of mine eyes - my grief is so great that I cannot sleep. I am so troubled that I cannot speak - This shows an increase of sorrow and anguish. At first he felt his misery, and called aloud. He receives more light, sees and feels his deep wretchedness, and then his words are swallowed by excessive distress. His woes are too big for utterance. "Small troubles are loquacious; the great are…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Thou holdest mine eyes waking - literally, “Thou holdest the watchings of my eyes.” Gesenius (Lexicon) translates the Hebrew word rendered “waking,” “eyelids.” Probably that is the true idea. The eyelids are the watchers or guardians of the eyes. In danger, and in sleep, they close. Here the idea is, that God held them so that they did not close. He overcame the natural tendency of the eye to shut. In other words, the psalmist was kept awake; he could not…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-6As the psalmist meditates at night, he feels so disturbed that he cannot sleep or speak. He has pleasant memories of the past, but he cannot look beyond the present moment into the future.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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