Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven, Jehovah Himself speaking the decisive word against the tumult of the hostile world; the earth feared and was still, its tumult being constrained to die down into silence,
Verse Psalms 76:8. _THOU DIDST CAUSE JUDGMENT TO BE HEARD_] When God declared by his prophet that the enemy should not prevail, but on the contrary be destroyed, _the earth _- the _land_, and by _met...
THOU DIDST CAUSE JUDGMENT TO BE HEARD FROM HEAVENS - It seemed to come from heaven; it was manifestly from thee. The overthrow of these enemies of thy people was a manifest judgment from thee, and sho...
Psalms 76 Divine Government Established and Maintained _ 1. The Prince of Peace reigns (Psalms 76:1)_ 2. The day of wrath and what it brought (Psalms 76:7) We behold the Lord now in Judah, the Lio...
LXXVI. THE MAJESTY OF GOD IN ZION: HOMAGE OF THE NATIONS. Psalms 76:2. Salem: a poetical name for Jerusalem (Genesis 14:18 *). Psalms 76:3. lightnings of the bow (_mg.), i.e._ arrows....
_Thou didst cause judgement to be heard_ Or, as R.V., sentence. God pronounced sentence upon the proud Assyrian when He intervened for the rescue of His people. Cp. Psalms 46:6; Isa 30:30; 1 Samuel 2:...
It was the irresistible judgement of God....
PSALMS 76 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song of Triumph over a Divinely-smitten Foe. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 76:1-3, By reason of a Recent Interposition in behalf of Jerusalem, God has Anew Made Himself K...
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. -The Lord is mightier than all the mighty conquerors of the earth; because he has caused the stout-hearted to sleep in death, and so...
76:8 earth (b-12) Or 'land,' as 1 Samuel 2:8 . so ver. 8....
Like the previous Ps. this is a song of national deliverance, which may have been called forth, as the title in LXX suggests, by the overthrow of Sennacherib's army (2 Kings 19:35; 2 Chronicles 32:21;...
JUDGMENT] RV 'sentence.' 10B. RV 'the residue.. gird upon thee.' The spent and powerless anger of men is worn as an ornament by God, or becomes His sword by which they are destroyed....
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ SING A SONG OF ZION OR THE *LION’S *DEN PSALMS 76 They got up and took Jesus out of the city. They led him to the side of a hill, where men had
_[Psalms 76:9]_ מִ֭ שָּׁמַיִם הִשְׁמַ֣עְתָּ דִּ֑ין אֶ֖רֶץ...
Psalms 76:1 IN contents and tone this psalm is connected with Psalms 46:1; Psalms 48:1. No known event corresponds so closely with its allusions as the destruction of Sennacherib's army, to which the...
“THE WRATH OF MAN SHALL PRAISE THEE” Psalms 76:1 In Psalms 76:2, _tabernacle_ may be rendered “covert,” and _dwelling-place_, “lair.” God is compared to the lion, that dreaded monarch of beasts, who...
The singer celebrates a great victory, recognizing it as the work of God. The song has three movements. In the first, God is seen as the defense of the people (verses Psa 76:1-3). In the second, His v...
Here are strong and sublime intimations of God's greatness, and of the weakness of all power when opposed to him. Reader, think what that sovereignty will be, when the Lord shall come to judgment, and...
8._From heaven thou hast made thy judgment to be heard. _By the name of _heaven, _the Psalmist forcibly intimates that the judgment of God was too manifest to admit of the possibility of its being asc...
Psalms 76 is extremely simple in its application to the judgment of the kings, who come up against Jerusalem in their pride, and find, unlooked for, the Lord Himself there (compare Micah 4:11-13 and Z...
THOU DIDST CAUSE JUDGMENT TO BE HEARD FROM HEAVEN,.... When an angel was sent down from heaven, and destroyed the Assyrian army, a judgment of God upon them; at which time some think there was a viole...
Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still, Ver. 8. _Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven_] From thence is God's wrath revealed plainly and plenti...
_Thou didst cause judgment to be heard_, &c. Thou didst execute judgment upon thine enemies by an angel sent from heaven. _The earth feared, and was still_ The effect of this terrible judgment was, th...
7-12 God's people are the meek of the earth, the quiet in the land, that suffer wrong, but do none. The righteous God seems to keep silence long, yet, sooner or later, he will make judgment to be hea...
Thou didst execute judgment upon thine enemies by an angel sent from heaven; which is said to be heard, either because that was accompanied with terrible thunders and earthquakes, which was not unusua...
Psalms 76:8 judgment H1779 heard H8085 (H8689) heaven H8064 earth H776 feared H3372 (H8804) still H8252 ...
CONTENTS: The glory of God's power celebrated. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: The hardships which God's people suffer by the wrath of their enemies will be made to redound to the glory of God w...
This is a martial ode, sung, according to the LXX, after the defeat of the Assyrian army. The Latin bible follows the LXX. The words of the psalm concerning the sleeping of the enemy, and the fall of...
_For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red._ GOD’S THREATENINGS AGAINST INCORRIGIBLE SINNERS In this verse we have a lively description and amplification of the judgments of Go...
_In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel._ GLORIOUS ASPECTS OF THE DIVINE CHARACTER I. As the glorious resident in the midst of His people (Psalms 76:1). God is everywhere; but is in an e...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 76:1. This hymn celebrates Zion as the place God has chosen to dwell, and the capital of the people he has chosen to bless and protect. It is a companion to...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 76:3 The past-tense verbs show that this psalm is particularly geared to celebrating an occasion in which God protected Zion from Gentile invaders (BROKE, STRIPPED, stunn
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician on Neginoth_.” See Introduction to Psalms 54. _A Psalm—a Song of Asaph_. (See notes on the authorship of Psalms 74) The superscription may be th...
EXPOSITION THE present psalm consists of three stanzas—the first of three verses, terminated by the pause mark, "Selah;" the second of six verses, ended similarly, and the third (like the first) of th...
In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel (Psalms 76:1). Judah, of course, was the southern kingdom. Israel was the northern kingdom. In Salem also is his tabernacle [that would be Jerusalem...
2 Chronicles 20:29; 2 Chronicles 20:30; 2 Chronicles 32:20; Exodus 19:10;...
Thou — Didst execute judgment upon thine enemies, by an angel from heaven: which is said to be heard, either because it was accompanied with thunders and earthquakes, or because the fame of it was qui...