Psalms 77 · Verse 10

Psalms 77:10

And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
Psalms 77:10, King James Version

Psalms 77:10 in other translations

BSBSo I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
WEBThen I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
ASVAnd I said, This is my infirmity; But I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.
YLTAnd I say: ‘My weakness is, The changes of the right hand of the Most High.'
DARBYThen said I, This is my weakness: — the years of the right hand of the Most High
BBEAnd I said, It is a weight on my spirit; but I will keep in mind the years of the right hand of the Most High.
WebsterAnd I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High.

What does Psalms 77:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. Omitting the supplied words, we may read, "This is my affliction--the years of," &c., "years" being taken as parallel to affliction (compare Psa 90:15), as of God's ordering.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 10 And I said, This is my infirmity - The Hebrew is very obscure, and has been differently translated: ואמר חלותי היא שנות ימימן עליון vaomar challothi hi shenoth yemin elyon; "And I said, Is this my weakness? Years the right hand of the Most High." If חלותי challothi comes from חלה chalah, and signifies to pray, as De Dieu has thought, then his translation may be proper: Precari hoc meum est; mutare dextram Altissimi. "To pray, this my business; to change the right hand of the Most High." I can do nothing else than pray; God is the Ruler of events. Mr. N. M. Berlin translates, "Dolere meum hoc est; mutare est dextra Altissimi." To grieve is my portion; to change (my condition) belongs to the right hand of the Most High. Here שנות shenoth, which we translate years, is derived from שנה shanah, to change. This latter appears to me the better translation; the sum of the meaning is, "I am in deep distress; the Most High alone can change my condition." The old Psalter, following the Vulgate, - Et dixi, Nunc coepi: haec mutatio dexterae Excelsi, - translates: And I said, Now I began this chaunchyng of ryght hand of hihegh (highest) Alswa say, God sal noght kast al man kynde fra his sigt with outen ende: for nowe I began to understand the syker; (the truth); that man sal be brogt to endles; and thar fore, now I said, that this chaunchyng fra wreth to mercy, is thrugh Ihu Criste that chaunges me fra ill to gude, fra noy to gladnes. Once more, Coverdale, who is followed by Matthews and Becke, takes the passage by storm: "At last I came to this poynte, that I thought; O why art thou so foolish? The right hande of the Most Hyest can chaunge all."

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 77:1-10

Days of trouble must be days of prayer; when God seems to have withdrawn from us, we must seek him till we find him. In the day of his trouble the psalmist did not seek for the diversion of business or amusement, but he sought God, and his favor and grace. Those that are under trouble of mind, must pray it away. He pored upon the trouble; the methods that should have relieved him did but increase his grief. When he…

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Psalms 77:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

וָ֭אֹמַרVa.'o.marand I saidH559
חַלּ֣וֹתִיcha.Lo.ti[is] wounding myH2470
הִ֑יאHi'itH1931
שְׁ֝נ֗וֹתShe.Not[the] years ofH8141
יְמִ֣יןye.Min[the] right [hand] ofH3225
עֶלְיֽוֹן\׃el.Yon[the] Most HighH5945

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Cross references for Psalms 77:10

  • Job 42:3

    Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not.

  • Exodus 15:6

    Thy right hand, O Lord, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O Lord, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

  • Psalms 31:22

    For I said in my haste, I am cut off from before thine eyes: nevertheless thou heardest the voice of my supplications when I cried unto thee.

  • Mark 9:24

    And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

  • Habakkuk 3:2-13

    O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy. God came from Teman, and the Holy One from mount Paran. Selah. His glory covered the heavens, and the earth was full of his praise. And his brightness was as the light; he had horns coming out of his hand: and there was the hiding of his power. Before him went the pestilence, and burning coals went forth at his feet. …

  • Psalms 77:5

    I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.

  • Lamentations 3:18-23

    And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the Lord: Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope. …

  • Numbers 23:21-22

    He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel: the Lord his God is with him, and the shout of a king is among them. God brought them out of Egypt; he hath as it were the strength of an unicorn.

  • Deuteronomy 4:34

    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

  • Psalms 73:22

    So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before thee.

  • Psalms 116:11

    I said in my haste, All men are liars.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
This is, etc.Or, as Dr. Waterland renders, "This my affliction is a change of the right hand of the Most High," i.e., it proceeds from a change of God's conduct towards me. De Dieu renders, {Precari, hoc meum est; mutare dextram Altissimi:} "To pray, this is my business: to change the right hand of the Most High." I can do nothing else than pray: God is the Ruler of events. Mr. N. M. Berlin translates, {Dolere meum hoc est: mutare est dextræ Altissimi:} "To grieve is my portion: to change (my condition) belongs to the right hand of the Most High."
31:22; 73:22; 116:11; Job 42:3; La 3:18-23; Mr 9:24
the years.
5; Ex 15:6; Nu 23:21,22; De 4:34; Hab 3:2-13

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Context

  • Psalms 77:9

    Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.

  • Psalms 77:10

    And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.

  • Psalms 77:11

    I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.

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Psalms 77:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Y dije: Enfermedad mía es esta; traeré pues á la memoria los años de la diestra del Altísimo.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		✶Dieu a-t-il oublié d’user de grâce? A-t-il enfermé ses miséricordes dans la colère? Sélah.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Da sprach ich: Das ist mein Kranksein. Der Jahre der Rechten des Höchsten,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Non custodierunt testamentum Dei, et in lege ejus noluerunt ambulare.