Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 77:14
Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
14. Thou art the God &c.] The true El, the living, Almighty God (Psa 5:4; Psa 42:2). The epithet that doest wonders is borrowed from Exo 15:11. Cp. Isa 25:1.
thou hast declared &c.] Render, Thou didst make known thy strength among the peoples. Cp. Exo 15:13-14; Exo 9:16.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Thou art the God that doest wonders – It is, it must be, the characteristic of God, the true God, to do wonderful things; things which are suited to produce amazement, and which we can little hope to be able to understand. Our judgment of God, therefore, should not be hasty and rash, but calm and deliberate.
Thou hast declared thy strength among the people – Thou hast manifested thy greatness in thy dealings with the people. The word people here refers not especially to the Hebrew people, but to the nations – the people of the world at large. On a wide scale, and among all nations, God had done that which was suited to excite wonder, and which people were little qualified as yet to comprehend. No one can judge aright of what another has done unless he can take in the whole subject, and see it as he does who performs the act – unless he understands all the causes, the motives, the results near and remote – unless he sees the necessity of the act – unless he sees what would have been the consequences if it had not been done, for in that which is unknown to us, and which lies beyond the range of our vision, there may be full and sufficient reasons for what has been done, and an explanation may be found there which would remove all the difficulty.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Verse 14. Thou – doest wonders] Every act of God, whether in nature or grace, in creation or providence, is wondrous; surpasses all power but his own; and can be comprehended only by his own wisdom. To the general observer, his strength is most apparent; to the investigator of nature, his wisdom; and to the genuine Christian, his mercy and love.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
By the mighty effects of it here following.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
14-20. Illustrations of God’spower in His special interventions for His people (Ex14:1-31), and, in the more common, but sublime, control of nature(Psa 22:11-14; Hab 3:14)which may have attended those miraculous events (Ex14:24).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
Thou art the God that doest wonders,…. In nature, providence, and grace; it seems chiefly to regard what was done for the Israelites in Egypt, and in the wilderness, see Ps 78:12,
thou hast declared thy strength among the people; the nations of the world, who heard what the Lord did for Israel by his mighty power, and with an outstretched arm, as follows.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
14. Thou art the God that doest wonders. The Psalmist confirms the preceding sentence, proving the greatness of God from the wonderful character of his works. He does not speak of the hidden and mysterious essence of God which fills heaven and earth, but of the manifestations of his power, wisdom, goodness, and righteousness, which are clearly exhibited, although they are too vast for our limited understandings to comprehend. Literally, the words are, Thou art the God that doest a Wonder; but the singular number is here evidently put for the plural, an instance of which we have seen before. From this we learn that the glory of God is so near us, and that he has so openly and clearly unfolded himself, that we cannot justly pretend any excuse for ignorance. He, indeed, works so wonderfully, that even the heathen nations are inexcusable for their blindness. For this reason it is added, Thou hast made known thy strength among the peoples. This has an immediate reference to the deliverance of the Church; but, at the same time, it shows that the glory of God, which he had clearly and mightily displayed among the nations, could not be despised without the guilt of grievous impiety having been incurred.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
Psa 77:14 Thou [art] the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
Ver. 14. Thou art the God that doest wonders ] In the daily defence and government of thy Church. Thou art the great Thaumaturgus, or wonder worker.
Thou hast declared thy strength among the people
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
declared = made known.
people = peoples.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
the God: Psa 72:18, Psa 86:10, Psa 105:5, Psa 136:4, Exo 15:11, Rev 15:3
thou hast: Exo 13:14, Exo 15:6, Jos 9:9, Jos 9:10, Isa 51:9, Isa 52:10, Dan 3:29, Dan 6:27
Reciprocal: Exo 15:13 – led Exo 18:1 – heard Exo 34:10 – I will do marvels Psa 63:2 – in the Psa 98:1 – for he Psa 107:31 – his wonderful
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 77:14-15. Thou hast declared thy strength among the people By the mighty acts of it here following. Thou hast redeemed thy people Namely, out of Egypt, after a long and hard bondage; which he here mentions to strengthen his faith in the present trouble. The sons of Jacob and Joseph The people of the Jews are very properly styled the sons of Joseph, as well as of Jacob. For as Jacob was, under God, the author of their being, so was Joseph the preserver of it. The Chaldee paraphrast appears to have understood the words thus, rendering them, The sons which Jacob begat and Joseph nourished. Joseph was indeed a kind of second father, and they might well be called his sons; without whose care, humanly speaking, there had been no such redemption, nor people to be redeemed.