Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Psalms 76:11
Vow — A sacrifice of thanksgiving for this wonderful deliverance. Let all — All the neighboring nations submit to the God of Israel.
Vow — A sacrifice of thanksgiving for this wonderful deliverance. Let all — All the neighboring nations submit to the God of Israel.
Verse Psalms 76:11. _VOW, AND PAY UNTO THE LORD_] _Bind_ yourselves to him, and forget not your _obligations_. _LET ALL THAT BE ROUND ABOUT HIM_] All the neighbouring nations, who shall see God's jud...
VOW, AND PAY UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD - That is, Pay your vows, or sacredly observe them. On the word “vow,” see the notes at Psalms 22:25. Compare Psalms 50:14; Psalms 56:12;...
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....
PAY UNTO. Figure of speech _Ellipsis_ (App-6). "pay [thy vows] unto". THE LORD. Hebrew. _Jehovah._ App-4. PRESENTS. Plural of majesty: i.e.. great or ceremonial present....
The lessons of judgement....
Let Israel pay the vows it made in its hour of peril (Psalms 66:13); let the nations that dwell near God's city and people bring their presents a phrase used only of bringing solemn tribute to God (Ps...
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...
Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. -God's people should pay their vows to Him; the surrounding pagan should bring...
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;...
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
VOW, AND PAY... — This clause seems to be addressed to the Israelites, the next to the heathen....
_[Psalms 76:12]_ נִֽדֲר֣וּ וְ שַׁלְּמוּ֮ לַ יהוָ֪ה...
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...
Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be (h) round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. (h) That is, the Levites who dwell about the Tabernacle, or the people among...
Begun. By God's grace, I now perceive that my thoughts were wrong. (Worthington) --- I see that we are chastised on account of our sins; (Theodoret) but now I hope for better things. (Tirinus) (Genebr...
These are the natural and just conclusions of what was said before. If God be so great, and so gracious, oh! seek his favor and his love! Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and so ye perish from the righ...
11._Vow and pay to Jehovah your God. _The faithful are now exhorted to the exercise of gratitude. As under the law the custom prevailed among the Jews of vowing sacrifices for singular blessings which...
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...
VOW, AND PAY UNTO THE LORD YOUR GOD,.... Not monastic vows, which the Papists would infer from these and such like words; nor ceremonial ones, but spiritual sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, such...
Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared. Ver. 11. _Vow, and pay to the Lord_] A plain precept; and yet Bellarmine saith, _...
_Vow unto the Lord_ Vow a sacrifice of thanksgiving; either at this time, for this wonderful deliverance, or hereafter, in all your future straits and troubles: let this experience encourage you to ma...
Vow and pay unto the Lord, your God, being sure to fulfill what they promised Jehovah in recognition of His deliverance; LET ALL THAT BE ROUND ABOUT HIM, all the surrounding nations, BRING PRESENTS UN...
GOD THE PROTECTOR OF HIS CHURCH. To the chief musician on Neginoth, to be sung in public worship to the accompaniment of stringed instruments, a psalm or song of Asaph, another hymn commemorating God...
UNTO HIM THAT OUGHT TO BE FEARED: _ Heb._ to Fear...
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...
VOW a sacrifice of thanksgiving; either at this time, for this wonderful deliverance; or hereafter, in all your future straits and troubles. Let this experience encourage you to make such vows to God...
Psalms 76:11 vows H5087 (H8798) LORD H3068 God H430 pay H7999 (H8761) around H5439 bring H2986 ...
Psalms 76:11 I. A vow is a resolution, and something more. A vow affects not only the judgment, but the heart. A vow should not be based upon expediency, but upon rectitude, upon foundations which ca...
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...
_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 76:10 THE WRATH OF MAN SHALL PRAISE YOU, that is, the way that God defeats their schemes leads people to acknowledge God’s rule. THE REMNANT OF WRATH YOU WILL PUT ON LIKE A BELT....
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 32:22; 2 Chronicles 32:23; Deuteronomy 16:16; Ecclesiastes 5:4;...