New International Version
Psalms 77:8
8Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?
Psalms 77:8 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- 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?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Is his unfailing love gone forever? Have his promises permanently failed?
Context of Psalms 77:8
6I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked: 7“Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again? Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time? 9Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?” 10Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
Read all of Psalms 77Psalms 77:8 word by word
הֶאָפֵ֣ס לָנֶ֣צַח חַסְדּ֑וֹ גָּ֥מַר אֹ֝֗מֶר לְדֹ֣ר וָדֹֽר׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 77:8
- Isaiah 27:11When its twigs are dry, they are broken off and women come and make fires with them. For this is a people without understanding; so their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
- Luke 16:25“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.
- Numbers 14:34For forty years—one year for each of the forty days you explored the land—you will suffer for your sins and know what it is like to have me against you.’
- Numbers 23:19God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
- Jeremiah 15:18Why is my pain unending and my wound grievous and incurable? You are to me like a deceptive brook, like a spring that fails.
- Romans 9:6It is not as though God’s word had failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are 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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