Commentary on Psalms - Volume 5

To the Chief Musician upon Jeduthun. A Psalm of Asaph

1My voice [I lifted up] to God, and I cried; My voice [I lifted up] to God, and he heard me.

2In the day of my affliction the Lord I sought: My hand in the night was stretched out and relaxed not; Refuse consolation did my soul.

3I will remember God, and will be disquieted; I will meditate, and oppressed with sorrow shall be my spirit. Selah.

4Thou hast held the watches of my eyes: I am troubled, and will not speak.

5I have recounted the days of old, The years of ages past.

6I will call to remembrance my song in the night: With my heart I will meditate, And search diligently shall my spirit.

7For ever will the Lord east off? And will he be favorable no more?

8Gone for ever is his mercy? Fail doth his oracle from generation to generation?

9Forgotten to be merciful hath God? Hath he shut up in anger his compassions? Selah.

10And I said my disease [is only for a season;] The years of the right hand of the Most High [I will wait for.]

11I will remember the works of God; Surely I will remember thy wonders from the beginning.

12And I will meditate on all thy works, And on thy doings I will muse.

13O God! in the sanctuary are thy ways: What god is so great as God?

14Thou art the God who doest wonders; Thou hast made known among the peoples thy strength.

15Thou hast redeemed by [thy] arm thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

16See thee did the waters, O God! see thee did the waters; They were afraid; also tremble did the deeps.

17The clouds poured out waters; The heavens gave forth a voice: Also thine arrows went abroad.

18The voice of thy thunder was in the circuit, The lightnings illumined the world; The earth trembled and was shaken.

19In the sea are thy ways, And thy paths in the great waters; And thy footsteps are not known.

20Thou leadest like sheep thy people By the hand of Moses and Aaron.