Psalms 77:8

Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
mercy	חַסְדּ֑וֹ chas.Do	H2617	kindness · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person masculine singular
gone	הֶאָפֵ֣ס he.'a.Fes	H656	to disappear · interrogative particle + verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
ever	לָנֶ֣צַח la.Ne.tzach	H5331	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
promise	אֹ֝֗מֶר 'O.mer	H562	something said · noun, common masculine singular absolute
fail	גָּ֥מַר Ga.mar	H1584	to end (in the sense of completion or failure) · verb, qal perfect, 3rd person masculine singular
evermore	לְדֹ֣ר le.Dor	H1755	properly · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Numbers 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken…
Romans 9:6 Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:
2 Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should peri…
Numbers 14:34 After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty…
Jeremiah 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that…
Luke 16:25-26 But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comfor…
Isaiah 27:11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off: the women come, and set them on fire: for it is a people of no understanding…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:1-10

We have here the lively portraiture of a good man under prevailing melancholy, fallen into and sinking in that horrible pit and that miry clay, but struggling to get out. Drooping saints, that are of a sorrowful spirit, may here as in a glass see their own faces. The conflict which the psalmist had with his griefs and fears seems to have been over when he penned this record of it; for he says (Psa 77:1), I cried unto God, and he gave ear unto me, which, while the struggle lasted, he had not the comfortable sense of, as he had afterwards; but he inserts it in the beginning of his narrative as an intimation that his trouble did not end in despair; for God heard him, and, at length, he knew tha…

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John Gill on Psalms 77:8

Is his mercy clean gone for ever?.... Or "his grace" (q); and mercy is no other than grace to objects in misery; Unbelief says it is gone, that no more will be shown, and that the treasures of it are exhausted; but Faith says it is not gone, and observes that God is the God of all grace, is rich in mercy, and abundant in goodness; that his Son is full of grace and truth, and so is the covenant; and that though there is an abundance of it given in conversion, and there are continual supplies of it afterwards; yet this grace is still sufficient, and this mercy abundant; salvation is by it, as for millions past, so for millions present and to come; the mercy of God is new every morning, it endu…

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John Calvin on Psalms 77:7-10

Psalm 77:7-10 7. Will the Lord cast off [292] for ever? and will he be favorable no more? 8. Is his mercy quite gone for ever? Doth his oracle fail from generation to generation? 9. Hath God forgotten, to be merciful? Hath he shut up his compassions in anger? Selah. 10. And said, My death, [293] the years [294] of the right hand of the Most High. 7. and 8. Will the Lord cast off for ever? The statements here made undoubtedly form a part of the searchings which engaged the Psalmist's mind. He intimates that he was almost overwhelmed by a long succession of calamities; for he did not break forth into this language until he had endured affliction for so long a period as hardly to venture to e…

Dictionary and topics

Despondency · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Doubting · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Promises Of God, The · Saints: Sometimes, through infirmity, tempted to doubt — Saints: Sometimes, through infirmity, tempted to doubt
Seekers · 5:8;8:5,6; — 5:8;8:5,6;

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 77:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:1-10

John Gill on Psalms 77:8

John Calvin on Psalms 77:7-10

Dictionary and topics

Psalms 77:8

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:1-10

John Gill on Psalms 77:8

John Calvin on Psalms 77:7-10

Dictionary and topics

Keil & Delitzsch on Psalms 77:4-9

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Psalms 77:7-9

Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 77:8