Like Psalm 75 this Psalm 76 is also a psalm of praise and most commentators place it as a result of the deliverance God brought to Jerusalem and its inhabitants under attack from Sennacherib and the Assyrian army…185,000 dead as the angel came into their camp one night. Psalm 77 is one of moods and tenses that cannot be seen or translated into English but finds the psalmist overwhelmed with sorrow and grief as he sees the trouble coming…in it we get a vocabulary of prayer when our own personal circumstances seem overwhelming. Psalm 78 is a reminder that we need to teach our children who God is. Here the psalmist recounts God’s deliverance from Egyptian bondage and the miraculous parting of the Red Sea. Psalm 79 seems to have been written when the Babylonians were devastating Jerusalem leaving behind unbelievable torment and destruction. This prompted the writer to cry out to God asking Him for his mercy upon His people. Psalm 80 appears to have been written at the end of the 70 year Ba
