Psalm

77 With my voice I will even cry out to God* himself,+

With my voice to God, and he will certainly give ear to me.+

 2 In the day of my distress I have searched for Jehovah* himself.+

At night my very hand has been stretched out* and does not grow numb;

My soul has refused to be comforted.+

 3 I will remember God and be boisterous;+

I will show concern, that my spirit may faint away.+ Seʹlah.

 4 You have seized hold of my eyelids;+

I have become agitated, and I cannot speak.+

 5 I have thought upon the days of long ago,+

On the years in the indefinite past.

 6 I will remember my string music in the night;+

With my heart I will show concern,+

And my spirit will carefully search.

 7 Will it be to times indefinite that Jehovah* keeps casting off,+

And will he no more be pleased again?+

 8 Has his loving-kindness terminated forever?+

Has [his] saying come to nothing+ for generation after generation?

 9 Has God* forgotten to be favorable,+

Or has he shut off his mercies in anger?+ Seʹlah.

10 And shall I keep saying: “This is what pierces me through,+

The changing of the right hand of the Most High”?+

11 I shall remember the practices of Jah;*+

For I will remember your marvelous doing of long ago.+

12 And I shall certainly meditate on all your activity,+

And with your dealings I will concern myself.+

13 O God,* your way is in the holy place.+

Who is a great God* like God?+

14 You are the [true] God, doing marvelously.+

Among the peoples you have made your strength known.+

15 With [your] arm you have recovered your people,+

The sons of Jacob and of Joseph. Seʹlah.

16 The waters have seen you, O God,

The waters have seen you; they began to be in severe pains.+

Also, the watery deeps* began to be agitated.+

17 The clouds have thunderously poured down water;+

A sound the cloudy skies have given forth.

Also, your own arrows proceeded to go here and there.+

18 The sound of your thunder was like chariot wheels;+

Lightnings have lighted up the productive land;*+

The earth became agitated and began to rock.+

19 Through the sea your way was,+

And your path was through many waters;

And your very footprints have not come to be known.

20 You have led your people just like a flock,+

By the hand of Moses and Aaron.+