Psalms 76:10

the wrath of man shall praise thee All rebellion against God's will must in the end redound to God's glory: it serves to set His sovereignty in a clearer light (Exodus 9:16). Excellently the P.B.V., -shall turn to thy praise."

the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain All that will not submit shall be subdued. The sense is good, but it is very doubtful if the verb can bear this meaning. Hence R.V., The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee. But whose wrath is meant? Surely it cannot be God's wrath, with which He girds Himself to complete the destruction of the foe, for the reference of wrathin the two clauses of the verse to different persons is awkward, and it is difficult to see what can be meant by the residueof God's wrath. Rather it must be, as in the preceding line, man's wrath that is meant. God girds on Himself as an ornament the last futile efforts of human wrath, turning them to His own honour: or girds them on as a sword, making the wrath of His enemies to minister to their final discomfiture. Cp. Isaiah 33:11, "Your spirit (i.e. wrath) is a fire which shall devour you." The peculiar rendering of the LXX, "shall keep festival unto thee," may however point to a different reading, meaning, shall honour thee. The P.B.V. -the fierceness of them" is a misprint for of other, the original rendering of the Great Bible. See Driver, Par. Psalter, p. xviii.