2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

77:2 Night - Which to others was a time of rest and quietness.

3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

77:3 Troubled - Yea, the thoughts of God were now a matter of trouble, because he was angry with me. Overwhelmed - So far was I from finding relief.

4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

77:4 Waking - By continual grief.

5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

77:5 The days - The mighty works of God in former times.

6 I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

77:6 My song - The mercies of God vouchsafed to me, and to his people, which have obliged me to sing his praises, not only in the day, but also by night.

7 Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?

77:7 Cut off - His peculiar people.

8 Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

9 Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

10 And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

77:10 I said - These suspicions of God's faithfulness proceed from the weakness of my faith. The years - The years wherein God hath done great and glorious works, which are often ascribed to God's right - hand.

11 I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

12 I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

13 Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?

77:13 In holiness - God is holy and just, and true in all his works.

14 Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

15 Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

16 The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

77:16 Afraid - And stood still, as men astonished, do.

17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

77:17 Poured - When the Israelites passed over the sea. Arrows - Hail - stones or lightnings.

18 The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

19 Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

77:19 Not known - Because the water returned and covered them.

20 Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

77:20 Leddest - First through the sea, and afterwards through the wilderness, with singular care and tenderness, as a shepherd doth his sheep.