Psalms 77 – I Will Remember the Works of the LORD

A troubled night gives way to remembering God's mighty deeds.

Psalms 77: I Cried Unto God With My Voice

This chapter of the Psalms overview opens with Asaph too troubled to speak, his eyes kept waking through the night, a personal struggle set right after the victory scene of Psalms 76.


To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, [even] to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.

\\77:1\\To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I cried to God with my voice, even to God with my voice; and he gave ear to me.

\\77:2\\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.

\\77:3\\I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

\\77:4\\Thou holdest my eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

\\77:5\\I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

\\77:6\\I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with my own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.

\\77:7\\Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favorable no more?

\\77:8\\Is his mercy wholly gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

\\77:9\\Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

\\77:10\\And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

\\77:11\\I will remember the works of the LORD: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

\\77:12\\I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.

\\77:13\\Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God!

\\77:14\\Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

\\77:15\\Thou hast with thy arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

\\77:16\\The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were disturbed.

\\77:17\\The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thy arrows also went abroad.

\\77:18\\The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.

\\77:19\\Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

\\77:20\\Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

He finds relief by deliberately remembering God's ancient wonders, especially the sea trembling and the earth shaking at the Exodus, a discipline of remembrance also seen in <a href="/bible/wbt/psalms/chapter-143/5">Psalms 143:5</a>. That same history is retold at length in <a href="/bible/wbt/psalms/chapter-78">Psalms 78</a>.