Psalms 77:4
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Psalms 77
5 songs meet this passage
“Staring at the blades of the fan as it spins around”
Come Over · Kenny Chesney
resonates with Psalms 77:4
The restless, sleepless ache described here mirrors the psalmist's own night spent too troubled to speak.
“I done tried it all”
Internal Bleeding · Kid Cudi
resonates with Psalms 77:2-4
The psalmist's exhausted search for relief, refusing comfort and feeling overwhelmed, mirrors this weary repetition of having tried everything.
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.
“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.
No More "I Love You's" · Annie Lennox
strains against Psalms 77:3-4
Where the psalmist's sleeplessness drives him to cry out to God, the song's numbness settles into silence without reaching toward anyone beyond itself.