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Psalm 77 Bible study: Your way through the sea
Psalm 77's "I complain" (77:3) and "consider" (77:12) are one Hebrew word: the same word is his complaint and then his considering of God's doings. His questions (77:8-9) ask in the Hebrew words and roots of Exodus 34:6's "merciful and gracious God, slow to anger" (Exodus 34:6). And from 77:13 on, the psalm speaks in the Hebrew words of the song at the sea (Exodus 15).
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“I will remember the LORD’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old.”
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"I remember", before the turn and after it
After its title the psalm opens with a cry: "My cry goes to God! Indeed, I cry to God for help, and for him to listen to me" (77:1). Then the night: "In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord. My hand was stretched out in the night, and didn’t get tired. My soul refused to be comforted" (77:2) (tap refused). "I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed" (77:3) (tap remember, overwhelmed). "You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak" (77:4). Here is what almost everyone misses: the psalm uses the same two verbs before its turn and after it. Remember is zakhar, and complain is siach, which Brown-Driver-Briggs gives as "muse, complain, poet. talk (of)" (tap consider). "I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart" (77:6): I consider is siach again, in the same Hebrew form as 77:3's I complain, asichah. Then, after his questions: "I will remember the LORD’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old" (77:11), and "I will also meditate on all your work, and consider your doings" (77:12). That is zakhar twice more, and asichah a third time. In 77:3 he remembers God and groans. In 77:11-12 he remembers the LORD's deeds and considers his doings.
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- Six questions, and the words of Exodus 34:6
- In the words of the song at the sea
- Known, and not known
- "Refused to be comforted", three times
- "The Lord will not cast off forever"
- Psalm 143:5: three of its lines in one verse
- 7 questions as you read
- 14 more Hebrew words
- A short check at the end
- Your notes, saved as you go
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The Hebrew word behind it
זָכַרzakharsay za-KHAR
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "remember". Strong's: "properly, to mark (so as to be recognized), i.e. to remember". Psalm 77 has it four times in Hebrew: "I remember God, and I groan" (77:3), "I remember my song in the night" (77:6), and twice in "I will remember the LORD’s deeds; for I will remember your wonders of old" (77:11). Its opposite comes between them, in "Has God forgotten to be gracious?" (77:9) (tap forgotten). Psalm 143 has it with of old, as 77:11 does: "I remember the days of old" (Psalm 143:5). The Psalms have it 53 times in Hebrew.
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Psalm 77 Bible study questions
- 1"My soul refused to be comforted" (77:2). Have you known a night like that? What did you do with it?
- 2The psalmist puts six hard questions to God (77:7-9) and keeps them in his prayer. Which of them have you asked, or been afraid to ask?
- 3"I will remember the LORD’s deeds" (77:11). What has God done, in Scripture or in your own life, that you could remember on a long night?
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