"To the chief Musician, (a) Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph."
Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto thee] do we give thanks:
for [that] thy name is near (b) thy wondrous works declare.
(a) Read (Psalms 57:1).
(b) He declares how the faithful will always have opportunity to
praise God,... [ Continue Reading ]
(c) When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
(c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come
and set all things in good order.... [ Continue Reading ]
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the
pillars (d) of it. Selah.
(d) Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and
preserve them.... [ Continue Reading ]
Lift not up your (e) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
(e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves
against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who
rule wickedly.... [ Continue Reading ]
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, [and]
drink [them].
(f) God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with
which t... [ Continue Reading ]
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of
the (g) righteous shall be exalted.
(g) The godly will better prosper by their innocent simplicity, than
the wicked will by all their craft and subtilty.... [ Continue Reading ]