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George Haydock's Catholic Commentary

Psalms 75:8

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) --- Ex tunc, often relates to a distant period. We have long known the effects of thy indignation. (Calmet) (Hebrews x. 31.) --- At the first notice of thy will the enemy is dejected, and fears thy potent anger. (Worthington)

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See also Psalms 75:8 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    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...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    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....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    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;...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The reason for this warning. Israel looks to God alone for help, and He is the supreme arbiter of human destinies....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    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;...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    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...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    75:8 foameth (d-13) Or 'it is red.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    A CUP] The same figure for God's punishment is found in Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah 48:26; Jeremiah 49:12....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    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...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    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...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 75:9]_ כִּ֤י כֹ֪וס בְּֽ יַד ־יְהוָ֡ה...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    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...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    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...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    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,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    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...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    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...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    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...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    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...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    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...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 75:8 hand H3027 LORD H3068 cup H3563 wine H3196 red H2560 (H8804) fully H4392 mixed H4538 it...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    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...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    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

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    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...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    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...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    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...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    Isaiah 5:22; Isaiah 51:17; Isaiah 51:22; Jeremiah 25:15; Jeremiah

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    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. Mixtu...

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