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Psalms 77:10
10Has God forgotten to be gracious? Or has He in anger withdrawn his mercies?” Selah
Psalms 77:10 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
- New International Version (NIV)Then I thought, “To this I will appeal: the years when the Most High stretched out his right hand.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Then I said, "I will appeal to this, to the years of the right hand of the Most High."
- New King James Version (NKJV)And I said, “This is my anguish; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
Context of Psalms 77:10
8“Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor? 9Has His mercy vanished forever? Has His promise come to an end forever? Has God forgotten to be gracious? Or has He in anger withdrawn his mercies?” Selah 11Then I said: “It wounds me— that the right hand of Elyon has changed.” 12I will remember the deeds of Adonai. Yes, I will muse about Your wonders of old.
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וָ֭אֹמַר חַלּ֣וֹתִי הִ֑יא שְׁ֝נ֗וֹת יְמִ֣ין עֶלְיֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Psalms 77:10
- Psalms 31:22Blessed be Adonai, for He has shown me His wonderful love in a besieged city.
- Psalms 73:22I was brutish and ignorant. I was like a beast before You.
- Psalms 116:11even when I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- Job 42:3You ask, ‘Who is this, who darkens counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke without understanding, things too wonderful for me which I did not know.
- Lamentations 3:18So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Adonai.”
- Mark 9:24Immediately the boy’s father cried out, “I believe! Help my unbelief!”
- Psalms 77:5You hold my eyelids open— I am so troubled—I cannot speak.
- Exodus 15:6Your right hand, Adonai, is glorious in power. Your right hand, Adonai, dashes the enemy to pieces.
- Numbers 23:21No misfortune is to be seen in Jacob, and no misery in Israel! Adonai their God is with them —the King’s shout is among them!
- Deuteronomy 4:34Or has any god ever tried to come to take for himself a nation from within a nation—by trials, by signs and wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—like all that Adonai your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Habakkuk 3:2Adonai, I have heard the report about You and I have come to fear. Adonai, revive Your work throughout the years, throughout the years make it known, In wrath remember compassion.
Commentaries on Psalms 77:10
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10And I said, This is my infirmity - The Hebrew is very obscure, and has been differently translated: עליון ימימן שנות היא חלותי ואמר vaomar challothi hi shenoth yemin elyon ; "And I said, Is this my weakness? Years the right hand of the Most High." If חלותי challothi comes from חלה chalah, and signifies to pray, as De Dieu has thought, then his translation may be proper: Precari hoc meum est; mutare dextram Altissimi. "To pray, this my business; to change…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10And I said, This is my infirmity - The meaning of this phrase is not, as would appear from our translation, that his reflections on the subject were to be traced to his weakness, or were a proof of weakness of mind, but that the subject overpowered him. This verse has been very variously rendered. The Septuagint and the Vulgate translate it, “And I said, now I begin; this is a change of the right hand of the Most High,” with what meaning it is difficult…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10The psalmist is afraid that God's hand of protection (Psalm 44:3; 77:15; Exodus 6:6) and favor (Psalms 16:7–8; 110:1) are now against him for no clear reason.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Omitting the supplied words, we may read, "This is my affliction--the years of," &c., "years" being taken as parallel to affliction (compare Psa 90:15), as of God's ordering.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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