Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 75:7
But God is the Judge, stated with emphasis; He putteth down one, humiliating and treading under foot the wicked, and setteth up another, exalting the righteous.
But God is the Judge, stated with emphasis; He putteth down one, humiliating and treading under foot the wicked, and setteth up another, exalting the righteous.
BUT GOD IS THE JUDGE - All depends on him, not on the natural advantages of a country; not on human strength, human skill, or human prowess. Whatever may be the natural resources of a country; whateve...
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....
BUT. No....
_the judge_ Cp. Isaiah 33:22. _setteth up_ Lifteth up. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:6-7; Psalms 147:6....
The reason for this warning. Israel looks to God alone for help, and He is the supreme arbiter of human destinies....
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...
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...
SETTETH UP] RV 'lifteth up': cp. 1 Samuel 2:6; 1 Samuel 2:7....
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...
_[Psalms 75:8]_ כִּֽי ־אֱלֹהִ֥ים שֹׁפֵ֑ט זֶ֥ה יַ֝שְׁפִּ֗יל...
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...
_Mounted. Hebrew, "the chariot and horse." (Calmet) --- But the riders are meant. (Berthier) --- Rabsaces had boasted, that Ezechias could not find men to mount 2,000 horses, if he should give them to...
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...
_A PSALM OF THE DIVINE JUDGMENT_ ‘God is the Judge.’ Psalms 75:7 This psalm celebrates God’s judgment in history, especially on the heathen. It has been thought to refer to the overthrow of Sennach...
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...
BUT GOD IS THE JUDGE,.... Or "because God is the Judge" u; and so this is another reason why fools should not deal foolishly, nor wicked men lift up the horn, and speak with a stiff neck, because ther...
But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. Ver. 7. _But God is the judge_] He sitteth at the stern, and ordereth all human affairs according to the good pleasure of his will...
_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...
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...
THE JUDGE, to wit, the righteous Judge, and supreme Lord and Governor of all the kingdoms of the world, giving them to whomsoever he pleaseth. It is he who hath rejected Saul and his family, and put m...
Psalms 75:7 God H430 Judge H8199 (H8802) down H8213 (H8686) exalts H7311 (H8686) God -...
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 15:23; 1 Samuel 15:28; 1 Samuel 16:1; 1 Samuel 2:7; 1 Samuel 2