Kretzmann's Popular Commentary
Psalms 76:9
when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth, His people, suffering from the oppression of the enemies. Selah.
when God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth, His people, suffering from the oppression of the enemies. Selah.
Verse Psalms 76:9. _THE MEEK OF THE EARTH._] The _humbled_ or _oppressed people_ _of the land_. The poor Jews, now utterly helpless, and calling upon the Lord for succour....
WHEN GOD AROSE TO JUDGMENT - That is, when he came to overthrow and destroy the enemies of his people, as referred to in the former part of the psalm. TO SAVE ALL THE MEEK OF THE EARTH - Of the land -...
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....
MEEK. the patient oppressed ones. SELAH. Connecting God _'_. judgment on Jebusites, and making it. ground of praise. See App-66....
It was the irresistible judgement of God....
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...
Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey. -The Lord is mightier than all the mighty conquerors of the earth; because he has caused the stout-hearted to sleep in death, and so...
76:9 earth. (b-14) Or 'land,' as 1 Samuel 2:8 . so ver. 8....
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
OF THE EARTH. — Or, _of the land. _...
_[Psalms 76:10]_ בְּ קוּם ־לַ † מִּשְׁפָּ֥ט...
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...
When God arose to judgment, to (f) save all the meek of the earth. Selah. (f) To avenge the wrongs done to your Church....
_Ever. Hebrew adds, "is his word ineffectual?" which the Vatican Septuagint neglects, (Berthier) though gamar omer be thus rendered in other editions. "Has he completely fulfilled his word," which may...
Here are strong and sublime intimations of God's greatness, and of the weakness of all power when opposed to him. Reader, think what that sovereignty will be, when the Lord shall come to judgment, and...
_DIVINE JUDGMENT AND ITS LESSONS_ ‘God arose to judgment.’ Psalms 76:9 The close relationship of this psalm to Psalms 75. is universally acknowledged. Without assuming this relationship we might, es...
9._When God arose to judgment. _The great object which God had in view in executing this judgment is now declared; which was, that he might furnish a proof of his fatherly love towards all his people....
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...
WHEN GOD AROSE TO JUDGMENT,.... He may sometimes seem to be asleep, and to defer judgment, but he will arise and hasten it in his own time, and will take vengeance on all his and his people's enemies,...
When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah. Ver. 9. _When God arose to judgment_] Being stirred up, as it were, by the prayers of his people, as Psalms 76:2,3 . _ To save al...
_Thou didst cause judgment to be heard_, &c. Thou didst execute judgment upon thine enemies by an angel sent from heaven. _The earth feared, and was still_ The effect of this terrible judgment was, th...
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...
WHEN GOD AROSE TO JUDGEMENT; when God, who for a season had sat still, began to bestir and show himself against his enemies. Or, _after God had risen_, &c. Or, _because God did arise_, &c. TO SAVE ALL...
Psalms 76:9 God H430 arose H6965 (H8800) judgment H4941 deliver H3467 (H8687) oppressed H6035 earth H776 Selah...
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...
_But I will declare for over; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob._ A MODEL OF DEVOUT PRAISE The praise resolved upon here is worthy of our imitation, inasmuch as it-- I. Loses sight of self in...
_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 76:3 The past-tense verbs show that this psalm is particularly geared to celebrating an occasion in which God protected Zion from Gentile invaders (BROKE, STRIPPED, stunn
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...
1 Peter 3:4; Isaiah 11:4; Jeremiah 5:28; Matthew 5:5; Psalms 149:4;...