Psalms 77:8

That they should not be as their fathers, 1 A perverse and provoking generation; 1 A generation which set not its heart aright, 1 And its spirit was not steadfast with God. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

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

In Context

7That they might set their hope on God, 1 And not forget the works of God, 1 But diligently seek his commandments. 1

9The children of Ephraim, bending and shooting with the bow, 1 Turned back in the day of battle. 1

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Cross References

Numbers 14:34According to the number of the days during which ye spied the land, forty days, a day for a year, ye shall bear your sins forty years, and ye shall know my fierce anger.

2 Samuel 14:14For we shall surely die, and be as water poured upon the earth, which shall not be gathered up, and God shall take the life, even as he devises to thrust forth from him his outcast.

Psalms 74:1For the end, Destroy not, a Psalm of a Song for Asaph. 1

Isaiah 27:11And after a time there shall be in it no green thing because of the grass being parched. Come hither, ye women that come from a sight; for it is a people of no understanding; therefore he that made them shall have no pity upon them, and he that formed them shall have no mercy upon them.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 77:2-11

Prevailing Melancholy; Mournful Supplications. 1 I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me. 2 In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted. 3 I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah. 4 Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak. 5 I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. 6 I call to remembrance my song in… Read the whole commentary →

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