Psalms 77:6

Psalms 77:6 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
• New International Version (NIV)I remembered my songs in the night. My heart meditated and my spirit asked:
• English Standard Version (ESV)I said, "Let me remember my song in the night; let me meditate in my heart." Then my spirit made a diligent search:
• New King James Version (NKJV)I call to remembrance my song in the night; I meditate within my heart, And my spirit makes diligent search.

Context of Psalms 77:6

4I remember God and I moan. I muse, and my spirit grows faint. Selah 5You hold my eyelids open— I am so troubled—I cannot speak. I ponder the days of old, the years long ago. 7In the night I remember my song. I meditate with my heart and my spirit is searching. 8“Will the Lord reject forever and never again show favor?

Psalms 77:6 word by word

אֶֽזְכְּרָ֥ה נְגִינָתִ֗י בַּ֫לָּ֥יְלָה עִם־לְבָבִ֥י אָשִׂ֑יחָה וַיְחַפֵּ֥שׂ רוּחִֽי׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• I call to remembranceזָכַרzâkar · to rememberH2142
• my songנְגִינָהnegîynâh negîynath · musicH5058
• in the nightלַ֫יְלָהlayil lêyl layelâh · nightH3915
• I communeשִׂיחַώîyach · to museH7878
• with mine own heartלֵבָבlêbâb · heartH3824
• and my spiritרוּחַrûach · spiritH7307
• made diligent searchחָפַשׂchâphaώ · to searchH2664

Cross-references for Psalms 77:6

• Psalms 42:8Deep calls to deep in the roar of Your waterfalls. All Your waves and breakers have swept over me.
• Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• Habakkuk 3:17Though the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no yield on the vines, Though the olive crop fail, and the fields produce no food, the flock is cut off from the fold, and there is no cattle in the stalls.
• Jonah 1:2“Rise, go to the great city Nineveh and call out to her, for their evil has risen before me.”
• Acts 16:25But about midnight, Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the prisoners were listening to them.
• Psalms 4:4But know that Adonai has set apart the godly for His own. Adonai will hear when I call to Him.
• Ecclesiastes 1:16I spoke with my heart saying: “I have grown rich and increased in wisdom more than any who were before me over Jerusalem. Indeed, my heart has experienced much wisdom and knowledge.”
• Psalms 139:23Search me, O God, and know my heart. Examine me, and know my anxious thoughts,
• Job 10:2I will say to God, ‘Do not condemn me; tell me why You contend with me.’
• Lamentations 3:40Let us examine and test our ways, and let us return to Adonai.
• 1 Corinthians 11:28But a man must examine himself, and then let him eat of the bread and drink from the cup.

Commentaries on Psalms 77:6

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 6I call to remembrance my song in the night - I do not think that נגינתי neginathi means my song. We know that נגינת neginath signifies some stringed musical instrument that was struck with a plectrum, but here it possibly might be applied to the Psalm that was played on it. But it appears to me rather that the psalmist here speaks of the circumstances of composing the short ode contained in the seventh, eighth, and ninth verses; which it is probable he…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 6I call to remembrance my song in the night - Compare Job 35:10, note; Psalm 42:8, note. The word here rendered “song” - נגינה negı̂ynâh - means properly the music of stringed instruments, Lamentations 5:14; Isaiah 38:20; then, a stringed instrument. It is the word which we have so often in the titles to the psalms (Psalm 4:1-8; Psalm 6:1-10; Psalm 54:1-7; Psalm 67:1-7; Psalm 76:1-12); and it is used here in the sense of song or psalm. The idea is, that…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

Topics related to Psalms 77:6

• Diligence
• Heart
• Night
• Seekers
• Self-Examination

In the dictionaries

• Asaph
• Clean
• Complain
• Ear
• Jeduthun
• Manasseh
• Psalms
• Diligence; Diligent; Diligently
• God
• Korahites; Sons of Korah

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