Psalms 75:3

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 disorganisation of the kingdoms by the Assyrian conqueror. So Psalms 46:2; Psalms 46:6 uses the same figure of the same event, ultimately to be fulfilled before Christ's coming (Luke 30:25-27; Isaiah 24:19). I BEAR UP THE, PILLARS OF IT - `I have weighed the pillars of it' (Hengstenberg). The Hebrew [ tikan (H8505)] means literally to weigh by exact weight and measure, and so to consolida...

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 shaken. He reigns, as we know, that he may destroy the old man, and he commences his spiritual kingdom with the destruction of the flesh; but he conducts his administration in such a manner as that afterwards there follows the restoration of the new man. Of the second part of the verse, _I will establish the pillars of it, _they make the same application, explaining it as if Christ had said, As soon as I come into the world, the earth with its inhabitants shall melt and be dissolved; but immediately after I will establish it upon firm and solid foundations; for my elect ones, renewed by my Spirit, shall no longer be like grass or withered flowers, but shall have conferred upon them new and...

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 be managed uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be wise. To the proud, daring sinners he says, Boast not of your power, persist not in contempt. All the present hopes and future happiness of the human race spring from the Son of God. #6-10. No second causes will raise men to preferment without the First Cause. It comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. He mentions not the north; the same word that signifies the north, signifies the secret place; and from the secret of God's counsel it does come. Fr...

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. _I BEAR UP THE PILLARS OF IT._] By the word of my power all things are upheld, and without me nothing can subsist. Those who consider this Psalm to have been written by David before he was anointed king over ALL _Israel_, understand the words thus: "All is at present in a state of confusion; violence and injustice reign: but when 'I shall receive the _whole_ congregation,' when all the tribes shall acknowledge me as _king_, I will reorganize the whole constitution. It is true that the _land_ and _all its inhabitants are_ _dissolved_-unsettled and unconnected by the bands of civil interest. The whole system is disorga

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 1:5; Psalms 107:26. Here it means that there was, as it were, a general breaking up of things; or that none of the institutions of the land seemed to have any stability. There seemed to be no government, but universal anarchy and confusion. I BEAR UP THE PILLARS OF IT - Of the earth; of society. The earth here is compared with an edifice supported by pillars. Compare...

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 verses. The remainder of the poem (Psalms 75:2) sets forth God as a righteous Judge, against whom the ungodly contend in vain, and who will pour out at last the dregs of his vengeance upon them. The author may be Asaph, and the deliverance that from Zerah (2 Chronicles 14:9); or the date may be later, and the writer an Asaphite Levite of the time of Jehoshaphat or Hezekiah. The phrase, "Al-taschith," in the "title," is probably a musical term. It occurs also in the titles of Psalms 57:1;...

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 coming on they are deserving of; and the earth, through fire, when the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, the elements melt with fervent heat, and the earth and the works therein shall be burnt up, 2 Peter 3:10. I BEAR UP THE PILLARS OF IT.: so that it shall not utterly perish; for though by the fire, at the general conflagration, the heavens and the earth will be so melted and dissolved as to lose their present form, and shall be purged and purified from all noxious qualities, the effects of sin; yet the substance will remain, out of which will be formed new heavens and a new earth, and this through the power of Christ sustaining it, and preserving it from entire destr

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 in behalf of His sanctuary. The translation in our version of the opening verses is faulty. “We give thanks to Thee, O God, we give thanks--Thy Name is near! When I have taken the set time, I, even I, will judge uprightly. Though the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are melting, I myself set up its pillars.” Then He executes His judgments. He deals with the wicked, the horn lifted up, the man of sin. He putteth down and lifteth up. The wicked will be cut off and the righteous exalted....

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. He holds the brimming cup of wine, and all must drink. PSALMS 75:1. FOR. WORKS: read, We have called on thy name: we have told of thy wondrous works (LXX). Psalms 75:2. For the appointed time long delayed but sure to come, _cf._ Habakkuk 2:3. Psalms 75:3. Follow _mg._...

BEAR UP. have established. SELAH. Connecting the set time of judgment with the judgment itself as it will affect the wicked and the righteous....