Psalm 77:1
77:1 To the chief Musician, to Jeduthun, A Psalm of Asaph. I
     cried unto God with my {a} voice, [even] unto God with my
     voice; and he gave ear unto me.

     (a) The prophet teaches us by his example to flee to God
         for help in our necessities.

Psalm 77:3
77:3 I remembered God, and was {b} troubled: I complained, and
     my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

     (b) He shows that we must patiently abide though God does
         not deliver us from our troubles at the first cry.

Psalm 77:4
77:4 Thou holdest mine eyes {c} waking: I am so troubled that I
     cannot speak.

     (c) Meaning that his sorrows were as watchmen that kept his
         eyes from sleeping.

Psalm 77:6
77:6 I call to remembrance my {d} song in the night: I commune
     with mine own heart: and my spirit made {e} diligent
     search.

     (d) Of thanksgiving, which I was accustomed to sing in my
         prosperity.
     (e) Both the reasons why I was chastened, and when my
         sorrows would end.

Psalm 77:8
77:8 Is his {f} mercy clean gone for ever? doth [his] promise
     fail for evermore?

     (f) As if he would say, It is impossible: by which he
         exhorts himself to patience.

Psalm 77:10
77:10 And I said, This [is] my {g} infirmity: [but I will
      remember] the years of the right hand of the most High.

      (g) Though I first doubted of my life, yet considering
          that God had his years, that is, change of times, and
          was accustomed also to lift up them whom he had
          beaten, I took heart again.

Psalm 77:13
77:13 Thy way, O God, [is] {h} in the sanctuary: who [is so]
      great a {i} God as [our] God?

      (h) That is in heaven, to which we must ascend by faith,
          if we will know the ways of God.
      (i) He condemns all who worship anything save the only
          true God, whose glory appears through the world.

Psalm 77:16
77:16 The {k} waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they
      were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

      (k) He declares how the power of God was declared when he
          delivered the Israelites through the Red Sea.

Psalm 77:17
77:17 The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a {l}
      sound: thine arrows also went abroad.

      (l) That is, thundered and lightninged.

Psalm 77:19
77:19 Thy way [is] in the sea, and thy path in the great waters,
      and thy footsteps are not {m} known.

      (m) For when you had brought over your people, the water
          returned to her course, and the enemies who thought to
          have followed them, could not pass through,
          Exodus 14:28,29.