Psalm 75
לַמְנַצֵּ֥חַ אַל תַּשְׁחֵ֑ת מִזְמ֖וֹר לְאָסָ֣ף שִֽׁיר
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God’s Righteous Judgment
(Romans 2:1–16)
For the choirmaster: To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm of Asaph. A song.
1We give thanks to You, O God;
we give thanks, for Your Name is near.
The people declare Your wondrous works.
2“When I choose a time,
I will judge fairly.
3When the earth and all its dwellers quake,
it is I who bear up its pillars.
Selah
4I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
5Do not lift up your horn against heaven
or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
6For exaltation comes neither from east nor west,
nor out of the desert,
7but it is God who judges;
He brings down one and exalts another.
8For a cup is in the hand of the LORD,
full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours from His cup,
and all the wicked of the earth
drink it down to the dregs.
9But I will proclaim Him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off,
but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
Introduction
Psalms 75
Though this psalm is attributed to Asaph in the title, yet it does so exactly agree with David's circumstances, at his coming to the crown after the death of Saul, that most interpreters apply it to that juncture, and suppose that either Asaph penned it, in the person of David, as his poet-laureat (probably the substance of the psalm was some speech which David made to a convention of the states, at his accession to the government, and Asaph turned it into verse, and published it in a poem, for the better spreading of it among the people), or that David penned it, and delivered it to Asaph as precentor of the temple. In this psalm, I. David returns God thanks for bringing him to the throne (Psa 75:1, Psa 75:9). II. He promises to lay out himself for the public good, in the use of the power God had given him (Psa 75:2, Psa 75:3, Psa 75:10). III. He checks the insolence of those that opposed his coming to the throne (Psa 75:4, Psa 75:5). IV. He fetches a reason for all this from God's sovereign dominion in the affairs of the children of men (Psa 75:6-8). In singing this psalm we must give to God the glory of all the revolutions of states and kingdoms, believing that they are all according to his counsel and that he will make them all to work for the good of his church.
To the chief musician, Al-taschith. A psalm or song of Asaph.
Cross-references: Ps 75:1 · Ps 75:9 · Ps 75:2 · Ps 75:3 · Ps 75:10 · Ps 75:4 · Ps 75:5 · Ps 75:6