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Psalms 75:6
For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south, from the mountainous desert, no earthly power can bring either oppression or redemption without God's will or permission.
For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south, from the mountainous desert, no earthly power can bring either oppression or redemption without God's will or permission.
Verse Psalms 75:6. _FOR PROMOTION_ COMETH _NEITHER FROM THE EAST, C._] As if the Lord had said, speaking to the Babylonians, None of all the surrounding powers shall be able to help you none shall pl...
FOR PROMOTION - The word used here in the original, and rendered “promotion” - הרים _hariym_ - is susceptible of two quite different significations. According to one - that which is adopted by our tra...
Psalms 75 The Divine Answer _ 1. Christ the righteous judge (Psalms 75:1)_ 2. His judgment (Psalms 75:6) It is Christ as King who is pictured in this Psalm coming to answer the pleas of His people...
LXXV. THE INEVITABLE JUDGMENT. The Ps. opens with praise of God and His wondrous works. After Psalms 75:1 it is God who speaks. God will surely judge the world, though He waits for His appointed time....
SOUTH. Therefore it comes from the north. The immediate place of God's throne, to which Satan aspires. Compare Isaiah 14:12. See Job 26:7. This is where promotion comes from....
The reason for this warning. Israel looks to God alone for help, and He is the supreme arbiter of human destinies....
According to one reading of the Heb. text we must render, For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the wilderness, (cometh) lifting up. _The wilderness_, to the S. of Palestine, st...
FOR PROMOTION, &C.— _For exaltation is not from the east nor west, nor from the wilderness;_ Psalms 75:7 _but God is judge: he humbleth one, and exalteth another._ Mudge. Dr. Delaney thinks, that this...
PSALMS 75 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song, Enshrining an Oracular Assurance of Equitable Judgment by the Judge of the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 75:1, Congregational Thanksgiving, Promising a Rehea...
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: -In reliance on God's promise (Psalms 75:2), Israel warns the haughty foe no more to lift up the neck in pride, f...
75:6 south (c-14) Lit. 'the wilderness,' which was in the south....
READ, 'For neither from.. cometh judgment.' Foreign invasions of Israel generally came from the N., and deliverance might naturally be looked for from some of the other quarters mentioned....
In contrast with the plaintive strains of Psalms 74 this is a Ps. of thanksgiving for some national deliverance (Psalms 75:1). It celebrates God as the Judge of all the earth, who interposes in His ow...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ EARTHQUAKES, HORNS AND A CUP OF WINE! (SEE THE NOTES) PSALMS 75 Jesus woke up and he was angry with the wind. He said to the sea, "Shut your mouth and stop makin...
FOR PROMOTION... — The Authorised Version has here rightly set aside the pointing of the text, which, as the LXX. and Vulg., reads — “For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the wilderness...
_[Psalms 75:7]_ כִּ֤י לֹ֣א מִ֭ מֹּוצָא וּ...
Psalms 75:1 THIS psalm deals with the general thought of God's judgment in history, especially on heathen nations. It has no clear marks of connection with any particular instance of that judgment. Th...
GOD PUTTETH DOWN AND LIFTETH UP Psalms 75:1 This psalm dates probably from Sennacherib's invasion, and therefore the _North_ is omitted in Psalms 75:6, that being the quarter from which the enemy ca...
If this, and the former psalm, were written by different men and at different periods, then the spiritual sense of the editor is most clearly revealed in their juxtaposition in this book. This is a co...
_Troubled. Hebrew, "plundered," or "stupified." (Berthier) --- The haughty and blasphemous Sennacherib, Rabsaces, &c., were full of dismay, when the destroying angel slew 185,000 (Calmet) in the dead...
Jesus proclaims grace to the humble, and destruction to the proud. Reader, our nature by the fall is truly ignorant: and next to the absolute ruin of our nature by sin, the most awful effect of Adam's...
6._For exaltations come neither from the east nor from the west. _(258) The prophet here furnishes an admirable remedy for correcting pride, when he teaches us that promotion or advancement proceeds n...
In Psalms 75 Messiah is introduced speaking, though the psalm commences with the remnant giving thanks to God for wondrous works already wrought. Then judgments of God introduce Messiah to the kingdom...
FOR PROMOTION COMETH NEITHER FROM THE EAST, NOR FROM THE WEST, NOR FROM THE SOUTH. It is not from men, from themselves, or others, or from any quarter under the heavens, but from God; it is he that ra...
For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ver. 6. _For promotion cometh neither from the east_] _Dignitatis nullum est emporium._ Ambitionists used to look...
_For promotion cometh not_, &c. Though you envy and oppose my advancement, because I was but a poor shepherd, and of a mean family; yet you ought to know and consider what is notorious and visible in...
SOUTH: _ Heb._ desert...
1-5 We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to...
For though you envy and oppose my advancement, because I was but a poor shepherd, and of a mean family; yet you ought to know and consider what is notorious and visible in the world, that the dignitie...
Psalms 75:6 exaltation H7311 (H8687) (H8676) H2022 east H4161 west H4628 south H4057 south - Heb. desert...
CONTENTS: A rebuke for those who fail to reckon with God. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: A word from God soon abases the lofty, and hence failure to reckon on God is madness. Even kings serve H...
Title. _Al-taschith:_ do not suffer me to perish. The style indicates that this was a psalm of David, when the courtiers of Saul had pronounced him guilty of high treason for aiming at the throne. He...
_God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another._ GETTING ON It is not a trivial question, whether your life, my young friend, is to be a failure or a success. Everybody is going on. W...
_For that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare._ GOD’S NEARNESS TO THE WORLD I. He is near as the sustainer of a dissolving system (Psalms 75:3). The force of disintegration operates every mom...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 75:1. This is a hymn of praise. It thanks God for the wondrous deeds he has done for Israel. It celebrates the fact that he is the judge of all the earth. He will, in his ow...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 75:6 This section takes up the idea of LIFTING UP from vv. Psalms 75:4. Ultimately it is God who executes judgment, puttin
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician, Altaschith_:” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Pslam—a song of Asaph_:” see introduction to Psalms 74. “There are,” says Perowne, “no clearly...
EXPOSITION This is a hymn of praise in anticipation of a deliverance, which may be from Sennacherib, or from some other dangerous enemy. The actual praise is confined to the first and the last two ver...
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly (Psalms 75:1-2). T...
1 Samuel 16:7; Matthew 7:21; Matthew 7:23; Psalms 29:8; Psalms 55:7;...