For — God is here compared to the master of a feast, who then used to distribute portions of meat and drink to the several guests. A cup — Of vengeance. Red — Such as the best wine of Judea was. Mixture — The wine is mingled not with water, but with strengthening and intoxicating ingredients. Dregs — The worst and most dreadful part of those tribulations. Shall wring — This dreadful draught was brought upon them by their own choice and wickedness.
Verse Psalms 75:8. _IT IS FULL OF MIXTURE_] Alluding to that mingled potion of stupefying drugs given to criminals to drink previously to their execution. See a parallel passage to this, Jeremiah 25:1...
FOR IN THE HAND OF THE LORD ... - The general idea in this verse is, that God holds in his hand a cup for people to drink; a cup whose contents will tend to prolong life, or to cause death. See the id...
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....
HAND. Figure of speech _Anthropopatheia._ App-6. THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. A CUP. The symbol of God's judgment. Isaiah 51:17 (Compare Psalms 19:14). Habakkuk 2:15;...
The reason for this warning. Israel looks to God alone for help, and He is the supreme arbiter of human destinies....
The judgement is described under the figure of a cup of wine, which God gives the wicked to drink. The figure is a common one. See Jeremiah 25:15 ff., Jeremiah 25:27 ff.; Jeremiah 49:12;...
FOR IN THE HAND OF THE LORD THERE IS A CUP, AND THE WINE IS RED— _And the wine is in a ferment._ Hiller, 328. _Is unmixed:_ Green; who renders the next clause, _He filleth it up to the brim, and poure...
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...
75:8 foameth (d-13) Or 'it is red.'...
A CUP] The same figure for God's punishment is found in Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 49:12....
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...
A CUP. — The figure of the cup of Divine fury is developed, as Psalms 11:6 compared with Psalms 16:5 shows, from the more general one which represents life itself as a draught which must be drunk, bit...
_[Psalms 75:9]_ כִּ֤י כֹ֪וס בְּֽ יַד ־יְהוָ֡ה...
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...
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. Hebrew, "thou, and who shall subsist before thee in the moment of thy wrath?" Houbigant rejects the second thou. (Berthier) --- From. From the time that thy wrath shall bread out. (Challoner) --...
I do not presume to say what this cup is, nor to what the whole allusion is designed: perhaps it means a mixture of what God's people are appointed to drink in soul exercises, and in providences. And...
8._For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup. _(261) The Psalmist here applies more directly to the use of the godly that judgment of which he has just now spoken. He affirms, that the object for whic...
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 IN THE HAND OF THE LORD THERE IS A CUP,.... Another reason why men should not act haughtily and arrogantly; for by the cup are meant afflictions, calamities, and judgments, which are measured out...
For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a 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, [an...
_For_, &c. This verse is added, either, 1st, As a reason or confirmation of the assertion, Psalms 75:7, and to show that God, in removing one king to make way for another, did not proceed in a way of...
For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, that of God's wrath, Cf Isaiah 51:17, AND THE WINE IS RED, foaming and frothing with its strength; IT IS FULL OF MIXTURE, God Himself having prepared the fe...
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...
This verse is added, either, 1. As a reason or confirmation of the assertion, PSALMS 75:7, and to show that God in removing one king to make way for another did not proceed in a way of absolute sover...
Psalms 75:8 hand H3027 LORD H3068 cup H3563 wine H3196 red H2560 (H8804) fully H4392 mixed H4538 it...
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...
_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...
_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...
Isaiah 5:22; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah