New English Translation
Psalms 77:8
8Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever?
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 said, “During the night I will remember the song I once sang; I will think very carefully.” I tried to make sense of what was happening. 7I asked, “Will the Lord reject me forever? Will he never again show me his favor? Has his loyal love disappeared forever? Has his promise failed forever? 9Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has his anger stifled his compassion?” 10Then I said, “I am sickened by the thought that the sovereign One might become inactive.
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הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 77:8
- Isaiah 27:11When its branches get brittle, they break; women come and use them for kindling. For these people lack understanding, therefore the one who made them has no compassion on them; the one who formed them has no mercy on them.
- Luke 16:25But Abraham said, ‘Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.
- Numbers 14:34According to the number of the days you have investigated this land, forty days – one day for a year – you will suffer for your iniquities, forty years, and you will know what it means to thwart me.
- Numbers 23:19God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a human being, that he should change his mind. Has he said, and will he not do it? Or has he spoken, and will he not make it happen?
- Jeremiah 15:18Why must I continually suffer such painful anguish? Why must I endure the sting of their insults like an incurable wound? Will you let me down when I need you like a brook one goes to for water, but that cannot be relied on?”
- Romans 9:6It is not as though the word of God had failed. For not all those who are descended from Israel are truly 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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