Psalms 77:2 BSB — MannaFest

Psalms 77:2

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

BSB

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ASV

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: My hand was stretched out in the night, and slacked not; My soul refused to be comforted.

KJV

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.

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Commentary

3 voices

John Calvin

1509–1564

Commentaries (1554)

There is, however, some ambiguity in the words. The Hebrew word yd, yad, which I have translated hand, is sometimes taken metaphorically for a wound; and, therefore, many interpreters elicit this sense, My wound ran in the night, and ceased not, that is to say, My wound was not so purified from ulcerous matter as that the running from it was made to stop.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Treasury of David, Vol. 3 (1872)

In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. All day long his distress drove him to his God, so that when night came he continued still in the same search. God had hidden his face from his servant, therefore the first care of the troubled saint was to seek his Lord again. This was going to the root of the matter and removing the main impediment first. Diseases and tribulations are easily enough endured when God is found of us, but without him they crush us to the earth. My sore ran in the night, and ceased not.

Charles Spurgeon

1834–1892

The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Sermon No. 853: “A Sermon for the Most Miserable of Men” (lightly modernized text, CCEL edition) (1869)

In this refusal to be comforted, David is not to be imitated. His experience in this instance is recorded rather as a warning than as an example. Here is no justification for those professors who, when they suffer bereavements or temporal losses, repine bitterly and reject every consoling thought. We have known persons who made mourning for departed ones the main business of life years after the beloved relative had entered into rest. Like the heathen, they worship the spirits of the dead.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

12 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
בְּי֥וֹם	be.Yom	in [the] day of	H3117 →
צָרָתִי֮	tza.ra.Ti	distress my	H6869 →
אֲדֹנָ֪י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
דָּ֫רָ֥שְׁתִּי	da.Ra.she.ti	I sought	H1875 →
יָדִ֤י׀	ya.Di	hand my	H3027 →
לַ֣יְלָה	Lay.lah	night	H3915 →
נִ֭גְּרָה	Ni.ge.rah	it was stretched out	H5064 →
וְלֹ֣א	ve.Lo'	and not	H3808 →
תָפ֑וּג	ta.Fug	it grew numb	H6313 →
מֵאֲנָ֖ה	me.'a.Nah	it refused	H3985 →
הִנָּחֵ֣ם	hi.na.Chem	to be comforted	H5162 →
נַפְשִֽׁי׃	naf.Shi	self my	H5315 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 50:15
Call upon Me in the day of trouble; I will deliver you, and you will honor Me.”
leads to
- Psalms 107:28
  Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He brought them out of their distress.
- Psalms 91:15
  When he calls out to Me, I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him and honor him.
- Psalms 34:3–4
  Magnify the LORD with me; let us exalt His name together.
- Psalms 107:19
  Then they cried out to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress.
- Zechariah 13:9
  This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They…
Through
Hebrews 5:7
During the days of Jesus’ earthly life, He offered up prayers and petitions with loud cries and tears to the One who could save Him from death, and He was heard because of His…
leads to
- Luke 22:41–44
  And He withdrew about a stone’s throw beyond them, where He knelt down and prayed,
- Matthew 27:46
  About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, “Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?” which means, “My God, My God, why have You forsaken Me?”
- John 17:1
  When Jesus had spoken these things, He lifted up His eyes to heaven and said, “Father, the hour has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You.

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Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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02Original language & word study

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Where the connections lead

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06About Psalms

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Psalms