Psalms 77 · Verse 15

Psalms 77:15

Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
Psalms 77:15, King James Version

Psalms 77:15 in other translations

BSBWith power You redeemed Your people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah
WEBYou have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
ASVThou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. [Selah
YLTThou hast redeemed with strength Thy people, The sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
DARBYThou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
BBEWith your arm you have made your people free, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. (Selah.)
WebsterThou hast with thy arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

What does Psalms 77:15 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 77:14-20

14-20. Illustrations of God's power in His special interventions for His people (Ex 14:1-31), and, in the more common, but sublime, control of nature (Psa 22:11-14; Ha 3:14) which may have attended those miraculous events (Ex 14:24).

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 15 The son. of Jacob and Joseph - "The sons which Jacob begat and Joseph nourished." says the Chaldee. The Israelites are properly called the sons of Joseph as well as of Jacob, seeing Ephraim and Manasseh, his sons, were taken into the number of the tribes. All the latter part of this Psalm refers to the deliverance of the Israelites from Egypt; and the psalmist uses this as an argument to excite the expectation of the captives. As God delivered our fathers from Egypt, so we may expect him to deliver us from Chaldea. It required his arm to do the former, and that arm is not shortened that it cannot save.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 77:11-20

The remembrance of the works of God, will be a powerful remedy against distrust of his promise and goodness; for he is God, and changes not. God's way is in the sanctuary. We are sure that God is holy in all his works. God's ways are like the deep waters, which cannot be fathomed; like the way of a ship, which cannot be tracked. God brought Israel out of Egypt. This was typical of the great redemption to be wrought…

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Psalms 77:15 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.

גָּאַ֣לְתָּga.'Al.tayou redeemedH1350
בִּזְר֣וֹעַbiz.Ro.a'by an armH2220
עַמֶּ֑ךָ'a.Me.khapeople yourH5971
בְּנֵי\־be.nei-[the] descendants ofH1121
יַעֲקֹ֖בya.'a.KoJacobH3290
וְיוֹסֵ֣ףve.yo.Sefand JosephH3130
סֶֽלָה\׃Se.lahSelahH5542

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 77:15

  • Deuteronomy 9:29

    Yet they are thy people and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest out by thy mighty power and by thy stretched out arm.

  • Exodus 6:6

    Wherefore say unto the children of Israel, I am the Lord, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their bondage, and I will redeem you with a stretched out arm, and with great judgments:

  • Isaiah 63:9

    In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his pity he redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them all the days of old.

  • Psalms 74:2

    Remember thy congregation, which thou hast purchased of old; the rod of thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed; this mount Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.

  • Deuteronomy 9:26

    I prayed therefore unto the Lord, and said, O Lord God, destroy not thy people and thine inheritance, which thou hast redeemed through thy greatness, which thou hast brought forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

  • Genesis 48:3-20

    And Jacob said unto Joseph, God Almighty appeared unto me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me, And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession. And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine. And thy issue, which thou begettest after them, shall be thine, and shall be called after the name of their brethren in their inheritance. …

  • Psalms 136:11-12

    And brought out Israel from among them: for his mercy endureth for ever: With a strong hand, and with a stretched out arm: for his mercy endureth for ever.

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136:11,12; Ex 6:6; De 9:26,29; Isa 63:9
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Ge 48:3-20

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Context

  • Psalms 77:14

    Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

  • Psalms 77:15

    Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

  • Psalms 77:16

    The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.

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Psalms 77:15 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Con tu brazo redimiste á tu pueblo, á los hijos de Jacob y de José. (Selah.)
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Toi, tu es le ✶Dieu qui fais des merveilles; tu as fait connaître ta puissance parmi les peuples.
German
Elberfelder 1871		Du hast dein Volk erlöst mit erhobenem Arm, die Söhne Jakobs und Josephs.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Interrupit petram in eremo, et adaquavit eos velut in abysso multa.