Psalms 77:3-4

I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 77

2 songs meet this passage

  • “I hide in my music, forget the day”

    More Than a Feeling · Boston

    resonates with Psalms 77:3-4

    Like the psalmist who meditates and finds his spirit overwhelmed, the singer turns inward to memory and melody as a way of processing sorrow, though without the psalm's eventual turn toward God.

  • 5AM · Clinton Kane

    resonates with Psalms 77:2-4

    The psalmist names the same sleepless, troubled-spirit nights, a biblical precedent for this kind of raw insomnia.

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