{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa077.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa077.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa077.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\nexpresses the purport of the Psalm.\nhis importunacy.\nmy sore ran . . . night--literally, \"my hand was spread,\" or, \"stretched out\" (compare Psa 44:20).\nceased not--literally, \"grew not numb,\" or, \"feeble\" (Gen 45:26; Psa 38:8).\nmy soul . . . comforted--(compare Gen 37:35; Jer 31:15).\nHis sad state contrasted with former joys.\nwas troubled--literally, \"violently agitated,\" or disquieted (Psa 39:6; Psa 41:5).\nmy spirit was overwhelmed--or, \"fainted\" (Psa 107:5; Jon 2:7).\nholdest . . . waking--or, \"fast,\" that I cannot sleep. Thus he is led to express his anxious feelings in several earnest questions indicative of impatient sorrow.\nOmitting 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.\nHe finds relief in contrasting God's former deliverances. Shall we receive good at His hands, and not evil? Both are orderings of unerring mercy and unfailing love.\nThy way . . . in the sanctuary--God's ways of grace and providence (Psa 22:3; Psa 67:2), ordered on holy principles, as developed in His worship; or implied in His perfections, if \"holiness\" be used for \"sanctuary,\" as some prefer translating (compare Exo 15:11).\nIllustrations of God's power in His special interventions for His people (Exo. 14:1-31), and, in the more common, but sublime, control of nature (Psa 22:11-14; Hab 3:14) which may have attended those miraculous events (Exo 14:24).\nJacob and Joseph--representing all.\nwaters . . . , footsteps--may refer to His actual leading the people through the sea, though also expressing the mysteries of providence.","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 77","type":"page"}