Psalms 78:64

Then the Lord awaked as one out of sleep,.... He seemed to be asleep, while he suffered the ark to be taken, and the Israelites to be slain; and he may be said to awake when he exerted his power in…

Their priests fell by the sword - Compare 1Sa 4:11. It was considered a special calamity that the ministers of religion were cut down in war. And their widows made no lamentation - That is, the public…

The matter and scope of this paragraph are the same with the former, showing what great mercies God had bestowed upon Israel, how provoking they had been, what judgments he had brought upon them for…

and their widows&c. This line recurs word for word in Job 27:15. In the universal distress the customary rites of mourning were not performed, even for a husband (2Sa 11:26-27).