Psalms 77:17

The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
clouds	עָב֗וֹת a.Vot	H5645	properly · noun, common feminine plural absolute
out	זֹ֤רְמוּ Zo.re.mu	H2229	to gush (as water) · verb, piel perfect, 3rd person common plural
water	מַ֨יִם Ma.yim	H4325	water · noun, common masculine plural absolute
skies	שְׁחָקִ֑ים she.cha.Kim	H7834	a powder (as beaten small) · noun, common masculine plural absolute
out	נָתְנ֣וּ na.te.Nu	H5414	to give · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person common plural
sound	ק֭וֹל Kol	H6963	a voice or sound · noun, common masculine singular absolute
arrows	חָצָץ châtsâts	H2687	properly
abroad	יִתְהַלָּֽכוּ yit.ha.La.khu	H1980	to walk (in a great variety of applications · verb, hithpael imperfect, 3rd person masculine plural

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Cross-references

Psalms 18:14 Yea, he sent out his arrows, and scattered them; and he shot out lightnings, and discomfited them.
2 Samuel 22:15 And he sent out arrows, and scattered them; lightning, and discomfited them.
Judges 5:4 LORD, when thou wentest out of Seir, when thou marchedst out of the field of Edom, the earth trembled, and the heavens dropped, the clouds a…
Psalms 68:8-9 The earth shook, the heavens also dropped at the presence of God: even Sinai itself was moved at the presence of God, the God of Israel.
Psalms 68:33 To him that rideth upon the heavens of heavens, which were of old; lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice.
Psalms 144:6 Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.
Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:11–end

The psalmist here recovers himself out of the great distress and plague he was in, and silences his own fears of God's casting off his people by the remembrance of the great things he had done for them formerly, which though he had in vain tried to quiet himself with (Psa 77:5, Psa 77:6) yet he tried again, and, upon this second trial, found it not in vain. It is good to persevere in the proper means for the strengthening of faith, though they do not prove effectual at first: "I will remember, surely I will, what God has done for his people of old, till I can thence infer a happy issue of the present dark dispensation," Psa 77:11, Psa 77:12. Note, 1. The works of the Lord, for his people, ha…

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John Gill on Psalms 77:17

The clouds poured out water,.... This, with some other circumstances which follow, are not related by Moses in the history of this affair; but as they are here recorded by an inspired penman, there is no doubt to be made of the truth of them; besides Josephus (a) relates the same things; he says, that at the time when the Egyptians were drowned in the Red sea, rains descended from heaven, and there were terrible thunders, lightnings, and thunderbolts; this was when the Lord looked through the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians, Exodus 14:24, the skies sent out a sound; or the airy clouds, the lighter ones, and which were higher in the heavens, as the others before mentioned were…

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John Calvin on Psalms 77:15–end

Psalm 77:15-20 15. Thou hast redeemed thy people by thy arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah. 16. The waters saw thee, O God! the waters saw thee; they were afraid, yea even the deeps trembled. 17. The clouds poured out waters, the heavens [or skies] sent forth a sound: thy arrows also went abroad. 18. The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven; the lightnings illumined the world: the earth trembled and shook. 19. Thy ways are in the sea, and thy paths in the great waters: and thy footsteps are not known. 20. Thou didst lead thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron. 15. Thou hast redeemed thy people by thy arm. The Psalmist here celebrates, above all the other wonderful w…

The Church Fathers

In praises of God, in confessions of sins, in hymns and in songs, in prayers, "There is a multitude of the sound of waters. The clouds have uttered a voice" [Psalm 77:17]. Thence that sound of waters, thence the troubling of the abysses, because "the clouds have uttered a voice." What clouds? The preachers of the word of truth. What clouds? Those concerning which God does menace a certain vineyard, which instead of grape had brought forth thorns and He says, "I will command My clouds, that they rain no rain upon it." [Isaiah 5:6] In a word, the Apostles forsaking the Jews, went to the Gentiles: in preaching Christ among all nations, "the clouds have uttered a voice." "For Your arrows have gone through." Those same voices of the clouds He has again called arrows. For the words of the Evangelists were arrows. For these things are allegories. For properly neither an arrow is rain, nor rain is an arrow: but yet the word of God is both an arrow because it does smite; and rain because it does water. Let no one therefore any longer wonder at the troubling of the abysses, when "Your arrows have gone through." What is, "have gone through"? They have not stopped in the ears, but they have pierced the heart.
— Augustine of Hippo, Exposition on Psalm 77

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Dictionary and topics

Exodus — The great deliverance wrought for the children of Isreal when they were brought out of the land of Egypt with “a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm” (Ex 12:51; Deut. 26:8; Ps 114; 136), about…
Arrows · Illustrative: Of lightnings — Illustrative: Of lightnings
Clouds · Thunder and lightning come from — Thunder and lightning come from
Rain · Occasioned by the condensing of the clouds — Occasioned by the condensing of the clouds
Readings, Select · THE MAJESTY OF GOD — THE MAJESTY OF GOD

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Psalms 77:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:11–end

John Gill on Psalms 77:17

John Calvin on Psalms 77:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 77:17

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:11–end

John Gill on Psalms 77:17

John Calvin on Psalms 77:15–end

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 77:16-19

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 77:16

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 77:17