Psalm 77:7 - In The Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD

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Context

In The Day of Trouble I Sought the LORD
…6At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered: 7“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again? 8Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?…

Cross References

Psalm 44:9
But You have rejected and humbled us; You no longer go forth with our armies.Psalm 44:23
Wake up, O Lord! Why are You sleeping? Arise! Do not reject us forever.Psalm 74:1
Why have You rejected us forever, O God? Why does Your anger burn against the sheep of Your pasture?Psalm 85:1
You showed favor to Your land, O LORD; You restored Jacob from captivity.Psalm 85:5
Will You be angry with us forever? Will You draw out Your anger to all generations?Lamentations 3:31
For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

Psalm 13:1,2
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me? …

Psalm 37:24
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the LORD upholdeth him with his hand.

Psalm 74:1
Maschil of Asaph. O God, why hast thou cast us off for ever? why doth thine anger smoke against the sheep of thy pasture?

and will

Psalm 79:5
How long, LORD? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 85:1,5
To the chief Musician, A Psalm for the sons of Korah. LORD, thou hast been favourable unto thy land: thou hast brought back the captivity of Jacob…

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Psalm 77

1. The psalmist shows what fierce combat he had with distrust
10. The victory which he had by consideration of God's great and gracious works.

(7-9) The self-questionings here follow as they rise sigh after sigh in the poet's heart. God's silences have always been more appalling to the human spirit than even the most terrible of His manifestations. To the pious Israelite, to whom the past history of his race appeared one scene of opportune interpositions to save at the moment when distress became too intolerable, it seemed as if the divine protection was altogether withdrawn when the misery was protracted and the sign of help withheld.

Verse 7. - Will the Lord cast off forever? The psalmist asked himself in the night such questions as these: Is it really to be supposed that God will cast off his people forever? And will he be favourable (or, gracious) no more? Surely such desertion is incredible. Parallel Commentaries ...

Hebrew

“Will the Lord
אֲדֹנָ֑י (’ă·ḏō·nāy)
Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 136: The Lord

spurn [us]
יִזְנַ֥ח ׀ (yiz·naḥ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2186: Reject, forsake, fail

forever
הַֽ֭לְעוֹלָמִים (hal·‘ō·w·lā·mîm)
Article, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

and never
וְלֹֽא־ (wə·lō-)
Conjunctive waw | Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

show His favor again?
לִרְצ֣וֹת (lir·ṣō·wṯ)
Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct
Strong's 7521: To be pleased with, to satisfy a, debt

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