Psalms 77:8
6 At night I remembered my song; in my heart I mused, and my spirit pondered:
7 “Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
9 Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has His anger shut off His compassion?” Selah
10 So I said, “I am grieved that the right hand of the Most High has changed.”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Is His loving devotion gone forever? Has His promise failed for all time?
- KJV
- Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
- WEB
- Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations?
- ASV
- Is his lovingkindness clean gone for ever? Doth his promise fail for evermore?
- DARBY
- Hath his loving-kindness ceased for ever? hath [his] word come to an end from generation to generation?
- BLB
- Has His loving devotion ceased forever? Has [His] speech come to an end to generation and generation?
- ÅB
- Er det for all tid ute med hans miskunnhet? er hans løfte blitt til intet slekt etter slekt?
- OTB
- Har Hans nåde opphørt for alltid?
Har Hans løfte tatt slutt for alle tider? - B1930
- Er det for all tid ute med hans miskunnhet? er hans løfte blitt til intet slekt efter slekt?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Numbers 23:19
God is not a man, that He should lie, or a son of man, that He should change His mind. Does He speak and not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Read in contextRomans 9:6
It is not as though God’s word has failed. For not all who are descended from Israel are Israel.
Read in context2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise as some understand slowness, but is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish but everyone to come to repentance.
Read in contextLuke 16:25–26
But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are in agony.
Read in contextNumbers 14:34
In keeping with the forty days you spied out the land, you shall bear your guilt forty years—a year for each day—and you will experience My alienation.
Read in contextJeremiah 15:18
Why is my pain unending, and my wound incurable, refusing to be healed? You have indeed become like a mirage to me— water that is not there.
Read in contextIsaiah 27:11
When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.
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