Psalms 76:1

PSALM LXXVI

The true God known in Judah, Israel, Salem, and Zion, 1, 2.

A description of his defeat of the enemies of his people, 3-6.

How God us to be worshipped, 7-9.

He should be considered as the chief Ruler: all the potentates

of the earth are subject to him, 10-12.

NOTES ON PSALM LXXVI

The title, "To the chief Musician on Neginoth, a Psalm or Song of Asaph." See the titles to Psalms 4:1; Psalms 6:1. The Vulgate, Septuagint, and others have, "A Psalm for the Assyrians;" and it is supposed to be a thanksgiving for the defeat of the Assyrians. The Syriac says it is a thanksgiving for the taking of Rabbah, belonging to the children of Ammon. It is considered by some of the best commentators to have been composed after the defeat of Sennacherib. That it was composed after the death of David, and after the two kingdoms of Israel and Judah were separated, is evident from the first verse. If Asaph was its author, it could not be the Asaph that flourished in the days of David but some other gifted and Divinely inspired man of the same name, by whom several others of the Psalms appear to have been composed during the captivity.

Verse Psalms 76:1. In Judah is God known] The true God revealed himself to the Jews. The Israelites, after the separation of the tribes, had the same knowledge, but they greatly corrupted the Divine worship; though still God was great, even in Israel.