<< Psalm 75 >>
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1 <{a} Altaschith, A Psalm
or Song of Asaph.>> Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks,
unto thee do we give thanks: for
that thy name is near
{b} thy wondrous works declare.
(a) Read Ps 57:1.
(b) He declares how the faithful will always have opportunity to praise God, as in their need they will feel his power at hand to help them.
2 {c} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
(c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come and set all things in good order.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars {d} of it. Selah.
(d) Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and preserve them.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5 Lift not up your {e} horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
(e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly.
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a {f} cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
(f) God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by drinking till they come to the very dregs they are utterly destroyed.
9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the {g} righteous shall be exalted.
(g) The godly will better prosper by their innocent simplicity, than the wicked will by all their craft and subtilty.
