Geneva Study Bible Commentary
Psalms 75:2
(c) When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
(c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come and set all things in good order.
(c) When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
(c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come and set all things in good order.
Verse Psalms 75:2. _WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION_] When the proper time is come that the congregation, my people of Israel, should be brought out of captivity, and received back into favour,...
WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION - The marginal rendering is, “Take a set time.” The phrase is thus rendered in most of the versions. So the Septuagint, “When I take the time” - ὅταν λάβω καιρ...
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....
I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION. The set time has come, &c. I. I, even I. Very emphatic....
When I reach the appointed time, I Judge uprightly. The -appointed time" (Psalms 102:13; Habakkuk 2:3; Acts 17:31) is the proper moment foreordained in the Divine counsels and known to God. The inte...
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...
WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE, &C.— _When I find the appointed time, I execute righteous judgment;_ Mudge: who observes, that this and the following verse contain the words of God, in answer to the first verse...
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...
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION, I WILL JUDGE UPRIGHTLY - the reply of Yahweh to the thanksgiving prayer of His people. The abrup...
75:2 assembly, (a-6) Or 'When I shall reach (seize) the set time.' see Leviticus 23:2 ....
God speaks. RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION] RV 'find the set time' for judgment....
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...
WHEN I. — Rather, _When I have chosen my time, I will judge uprightly._ This sense: “my time” being shown by the emphatic “I” of the Hebrew. (Comp. Acts 17:31.) The word rendered in the Authorised Ver...
_[Psalms 75:3]_ כִּ֭י אֶקַּ֣ח מֹועֵ֑ד אֲ֝נִ֗י מֵישָׁרִ֥ים...
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...
Judea. Hebrew, "Juda." (Haydock) --- This shews that the psalm was composed after the separation of the tribes, (Calmet) though not invincibly; as the names of Juda and Israel were used in David's tim...
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...
2._When I shall have taken the congregation. _The Hebrew verb יעד, _yaäd, _signifies _to appoint a place _or _day, _and the noun מועד, _moed, _derived from it, which is here used, signifies both _holy...
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...
WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION,.... Some render it, from the Arabic signification of the word, "the promise" o; the Spirit promised, the gifts of the Spirit, which Christ received for men, and...
When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. Ver. 2. _When I shall receive the congregation_] _i.e._ The government of all the twelve tribes, as I believe I shall do shortly, accordi...
_When I shall receive the congregation_ The first verse was spoken by many persons, _We give thanks_, &c.; here the speaker is one, and that one is plainly a ruler, who promises that when he shall hav...
When I shall receive the congregation, rather, the occasion, the time appointed in God's counsel for the execution of His judgment, I WILL JUDGE UPRIGHTLY. It is Jehovah Himself who here speaks. When...
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...
WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE: Or, when I shall take a set time...
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...
WHEN I SHALL RECEIVE THE CONGREGATION, to wit, the whole congregation, or body of thy people, to wit, all the tribes; which are now distracted and disordered by a civil war, which is a great hinderanc...
Psalms 75:2 choose H3947 (H8799) time H4150 judge H8199 (H8799) uprightly H4339 When -...
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 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...
2 Samuel 2:4; 2 Samuel 23:3; 2 Samuel 23:4; 2 Samuel 5:3; 2 Samuel 8:15
Receive — The whole congregation, all the tribes....