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Psalm 77

Psa. 77:10 KJV (With Strong’s)

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And I said
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
, Thisb is my infirmity
chalah (Hebrew #2470)
properly, to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat
KJV usage: beseech, (be) diseased, (put to) grief, be grieved, (be) grievous, infirmity, intreat, lay to, put to pain, X pray, make prayer, be (fall, make) sick, sore, be sorry, make suit (X supplication), woman in travail, be (become) weak, be wounded.
Pronounce: khaw-law'
Origin: a primitive root (compare 2342, 2470, 2490)
: but I will remember the years
shaneh (Hebrew #8141)
from 8138; a year (as a revolution of time)
KJV usage: + whole age, X long, + old, year(X -ly).
Pronounce: shaw-neh'
Origin: (in plura or (feminine) shanah {shaw-naw'}
of the right hand
yamiyn (Hebrew #3225)
the right hand or side (leg, eye) of a person or other object (as the stronger and more dexterous); locally, the south
KJV usage: + left-handed, right (hand, side), south.
Pronounce: yaw-meen'
Origin: from 3231
of the most High
'elyown (Hebrew #5945)
an elevation, i.e. (adj.) lofty (compar.); as title, the Supreme
KJV usage: (Most, on) high(-er, -est), upper(-most).
Pronounce: el-yone'
Origin: from 5927
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Psa. 31:22• 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. (Psa. 31:22)

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This is, etc.Or, as Dr. Waterland renders, "This my affliction is a change of the right hand of the Most High," i.e., it proceeds from a change of God's conduct towards me.
De Dieu renders, {Precari, hoc meum est;
mutare dextram Altissimi:}
"To pray, this is my business:
to change the right hand of the Most High."
I can do nothing else than pray:
God is the Ruler of events.
Mr. N. M. Berlin translates, {Dolere meum hoc est: mutare est dextræ Altissimi:}
"To grieve is my portion:
to change (my condition) belongs to the right hand of the Most High."
Psa. 31:22• 22As for me, I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes; nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee. (Psa. 31:22)
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Psa. 73:22• 22Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee. (Psa. 73:22)
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Psa. 116:11• 11I said in my haste, All men are liars. (Psa. 116:11)
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Job 42:3• 3Who is he that obscureth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered what I did not understand; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. (Job 42:3)
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Lam. 3:18‑23• 18And I said, My strength is perished, and my hope in Jehovah.
 19Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering, the wormwood and the gall.
 20My soul hath them constantly in remembrance, and is humbled in me.
 21--This I recall to heart, therefore have I hope.
 22It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not;
 23they are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. (Lam. 3:18‑23)
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Mark 9:24• 24And immediately the father of the young child crying out said with tears, I believe, help mine unbelief. (Mark 9:24)
the years.
Psa. 77:5• 5I consider the days of old, the years of ancient times. (Psa. 77:5)
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Ex. 15:6• 6Thy right hand, Jehovah, is become glorious in power: Thy right hand, Jehovah, hath dashed in pieces the enemy. (Ex. 15:6)
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Num. 23:21‑22• 21He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen wrong in Israel; Jehovah his God is with him, and the shout of a king is in his midst.
 22*God brought him out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of a buffalo. (Num. 23:21‑22)
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Deut. 4:34• 34Or hath God essayed to come to take him a nation from the midst of a nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a powerful hand, and by a stretched-out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Jehovah your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes? (Deut. 4:34)
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Hab. 3:2‑13• 2Jehovah, I heard the report of thee, and I feared. Jehovah, revive thy work in the midst of the years, In the midst of the years make it known: In wrath remember mercy!
 3+God came from Teman, And the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covereth the heavens, And the earth is full of his praise.
 4And his brightness was as the light; Rays came forth from his hand; And there was the hiding of his power.
 5Before him went the pestilence, And a burning flame went forth at his feet.
 6He stood, and measured the earth; He beheld, and discomfited the nations; And the eternal mountains were scattered, The everlasting hills gave way: His ways are everlasting.
 7I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.
 8Was Jehovah wrathful with the rivers? Was thine anger against the rivers? Was thy rage against the sea, That thou didst ride upon thy horses, Thy chariots of salvation?
 9Thy bow was made naked, The rods of discipline sworn according to thy word. Selah. Thou didst cleave the earth with rivers.
 10The mountains saw thee, they were in travail: Torrents of waters passed by; The deep uttered its voice, Lifted up its hands on high.
 11The sun and moon stood still in their habitation, At the light of thine arrows which shot forth,--At the shining of thy glittering spear.
 12Thou didst march through the land in indignation, Thou didst thresh the nations in anger.
 13Thou wentest forth for the salvation of thy people, For the salvation of thine anointed; Thou didst smite off the head from the house of the wicked, Laying bare the foundation even to the neck. Selah. (Hab. 3:2‑13)
• When, instead of communing with self and reasoning with its own misery, it looks to God, the heart sees all this is in itself, not in God. This is the turning point. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 64-77” by J.N. Darby)
• (vv. 10-12) The realization that it is impossible for the sin of God’s people to be greater than the grace of God comes as balm to the troubled soul of the psalmist. He sees that the suggestion that it is possible for God’s people to be cast off arises from the weakness of his mind that has judged of God’s ways towards His people by the way they have acted towards Him. Hence he arrests these thoughts and, instead of recalling his own experiences and the years of ancient times, he now remembers “the years of the right hand of the most High.” (“Psalms 77” by H. Smith)
• But in turning to God their confidence is restored as they realize they have been delivered from their enemies by the judgment of God (vs. 10-20). (“Book 3.” by B. Anstey)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Then said I, This is my weakness:—the years of the right hand of the Most High