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Psalm 77:15

You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.

13Your way, God, is in the sanctuary. What god is great like God?
14You are the God who does wonders. You have made your strength known among the peoples.
15You have redeemed your people with your arm, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
16The waters saw you, God. The waters saw you, and they writhed. The depths also convulsed.
17The clouds poured out water. The skies resounded with thunder. Your arrows also flashed around.
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Jacob and Joseph anchor this remembrance in a people's history, giving a troubled reader a concrete act of God's strength to consider.

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Where else Scripture says this

10 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Exodus 6:6Therefore tell the children of Israel, ‘I am the LORD, and I will bring you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians, and I will rid you out of their …Exodus promises redemption from Egyptian bondage with God's outstretched arm; the psalm remembers redemption accomplished by that arm.
Deuteronomy 9:29Yet they are your people and your inheritance, which you brought out by your great power and by your outstretched arm.”Both passages name the rescued people as God's own and attribute their deliverance to the strength of his arm.
Psalm 44:3For they didn’t get the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them; but your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, …Both psalms credit God's arm with saving his people, with Psalm 44 contrasting his strength with their own.
Isaiah 63:9In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried …Both passages recall God redeeming his people; Isaiah also names his love and pity in their affliction.
Deuteronomy 9:26I prayed to the LORD, and said, “Lord GOD, don’t destroy your people and your inheritance that you have redeemed through your greatness, that you have brought …The prayer in Deuteronomy and the psalm both remember God's people as those he redeemed through his strength.
Psalm 74:2Remember your congregation, which you purchased of old, which you have redeemed to be the tribe of your inheritance: Mount Zion, in which you have lived.Both psalms speak of a people God has redeemed, making that past act part of their address to him.
Psalm 81:5He appointed it in Joseph for a covenant, when he went out over the land of Egypt, I heard a language that I didn’t know.Both passages name Joseph within the people's history with God, though Psalm 81 speaks of a covenant rather than redemption.
Psalm 136:11–12and brought out Israel from among them, for his loving kindness endures forever;Both psalms remember God's rescue of Israel, with Psalm 136 linking that act to his enduring loving kindness.
Genesis 48:3–20Jacob said to Joseph, “God Almighty appeared to me at Luz in the land of Canaan, and blessed me,Both texts name Jacob and Joseph in accounts of God's dealings with them, though Genesis here recounts blessing rather than redemption.
1 Chronicles 17:21What one nation on the earth is like your people Israel, whom God went to redeem to himself for a people, to make you a name by great and awesome things, in …Both passages praise God for redeeming Israel as his people, with Chronicles naming their rescue from Egypt.
Where this verse fits

Feeling distant from God. doubt. gratitude.

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Encouragement

Remembering this rescue need not erase your questions. The psalm speaks from trouble, yet its remembrance has substance: God used his strength to redeem his people.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).