Ps. 77 is the poetic record of a soul trying to find a reason for his apparent desertion by God, and attempting to discover a way out of the darkness, finally surmounting his sorrow by the recollection of God’s past mercies to Israel. The psalm naturally falls into two parts, v. 11 marking the transition from grief and expostulation to hope and confidence. The psalmist speaks not only for himself but for Israel as a people. With regard to the authorship of the psalm see EGW, Supplementary Material, on Ps. 77:7, 10-12.
On the superscription see pp. 616, 627.
I cried.
Verses 1-6 show the intensity of the psalmist’s feelings. There is a fluctuation between statement of fact and expression of desire and emotion.