Dissolved — Or, destroyed; by intestine divisions and wars. I hear — I support it, by maintaining religion and justice, by setting up good magistrates, and encouraging good ministers, and good men, who are indeed the pillars of a nation.
Verse Psalms 75:3. _THE EARTH AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF ARE_ _DISSOLVED_] They all depend on me; and whenever I withdraw the power by which they exist and live, they are immediately dissolved....
THE EARTH AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF ARE DISSOLVED - The word rendered “dissolved” means properly to melt, to flow down; then, to melt away, to pine away, to perish. Isaiah 64:7; Job 30:22; Nahum...
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....
BEAR UP. have established. SELAH. Connecting the set time of judgment with the judgment itself as it will affect the wicked and the righteous....
God speaks, as in Psalms 46:10, and His words are virtually an answer to men's thoughts. Men may have thought that He had abdicated His function as Judge of all the earth: not so: He was only waiting...
The first line virtually forms the protasis of the sentence: Though the earth &c.; I have set up the pillars of it. Though all the world is in terror and confusion, _I_(emphatic) have established a mo...
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...
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. THE EARTH AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF ARE DISSOLVED - figuratively describing the political disorgan...
75:3 earth (b-2) Or 'land,' as 1 Samuel 2:8 . so ver. 8....
BEAR UP] RV 'have set up.' God's moral order stands sure even when it seems that' the world is out of joint': cp. 1 Samuel 2:4. SELAH] see on Psalms 3:4;...
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...
THE EARTH... — Better — “Are earth and all its inhabitants dissolved? It was I adjusted its pillars.” (See Hannah’s song, 1 Samuel 2:8.) Though the crisis be such that all is confusion and anarchy (c...
_[Psalms 75:4]_ נְֽמֹגִ֗ים אֶ֥רֶץ וְ כָל ־יֹשְׁבֶ֑יהָ...
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...
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....
_Peace. Hebrew Shalem. --- Abode. Hebrew, "tent or hut," an expression which shews, how much the finest structure of the East was beneath God's majesty. (Calmet) --- He suffered the rest of the world...
The former verse is evidently the language of the church, for it is in the plural, we give thanks; but here it is changed to one person, I. And who so likely to be represented as the great Head of the...
3._The earth is dissolved, and all its inhabitants. _Many commentators are of opinion that these words are properly applicable to Christ, at whose coming it behoved the earth and its inhabitants to be...
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...
THE EARTH AND ALL THE INHABITANTS THEREOF ARE DISSOLVED,.... Or "melted" p; the inhabitants, through fear and dread of the righteous Judge, appearing in the clouds of heaven, and of the wrath that is...
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. Ver. 3. _The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved_] Both Church and commonwealth here are u...
_The earth_ Or _land; and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved_ Or _melted_, as נמגים, _nemogim_, may be rendered. It seems to mean, either that the Israelitish affairs were thrown into confusion...
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved, when all men are discouraged and at the point of dissolution on account of oppression and violence of the wicked; I BEAR UP THE PILLARS OF IT,...
THE CHURCH PRAISES THE NEARNESS OF GOD'S JUDGMENT. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of public worship, Al-taschith, according to the melody "Destroy Not," a psalm or song of Asap...
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...
DISSOLVED; or, _melted_, consumed or destroyed; partly by the ill government of Saul and Ish-bosheth, and the great officers of state and war under them; and partly by intestine divisions and wars. I...
Psalms 75:3 earth H776 inhabitants H3427 (H8802) dissolved H4127 (H8737) up H8505 (H8765) pillars H5982 Selah...
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...
_I bear up the pillars of it._ GOD BEHIND NATURE It is literally true in the realm of nature. “I bear up the pillars of it.” God is being gradually eliminated from His own world. In olden time God wa...
_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 75:2 JUDGE. God’s judgment will be WITH EQUITY. This fairness preserves the stability of God’s creation order (PILLARS)....
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 18:7; 1 Samuel 2:8; 1 Samuel 25:28; 1 Samuel 31:1; 2 Samuel 5: