Psalms 77:12 Explained in Context

Read It With

• Psalms 77:10–15
• Psalms 77:1–20

Read Psalms 77:12 with 77:10–15 and 77:1–20. Read alone, “I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy…” could lose the individual voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 77:10–15, the individual voice carries the movement “The speaker turns to remembered deeds” as part of “Nightlong lament remembers the exodus.” Its lament-hymn form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.

Why This Verse Appears Here

Psalms 77:10–15 contrasts with “Night prayer and questions about rejected mercy” within Psalm 77 by carrying “The speaker turns to remembered deeds.” The turn from “Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah” to “And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of…” explains why this movement occurs here. Within that relationship, Psalm 77:12 voices testimony, resolve, or self-address in “I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings,” preserving the poem's individual or communal speaker.