Psalms 75:6 Commentary, explanation, study verse by verse

“ For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.b ”

Psalms 75:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

For promotion - The word used here in the original, and rendered “promotion” - הרים hariym - is susceptible of two quite different significations. According to one - that which is adopted by...
Psalms 75:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXV. The Inevitable Judgment. The Ps. opens with praise of God and His wondrous works. After Psalms 75:1 it is God who speaks. God will surely judge the world, though He waits for His appointed...
Psalms 75:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

south. Therefore it comes from the north. The immediate place of God's throne, to which Satan aspires. Compare Isaiah 14:12-14 . See Job 26:7 . This is where promotion comes from.
Psalms 75:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

6. For exaltations come neither from the east nor from the west. (258) The prophet here furnishes an admirable remedy for correcting pride, when he teaches us that promotion or advancement...
Psalms 75:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. For promotion cometh neither from the east, etc. - As if the Lord had said, speaking to the Babylonians, None of a...
Psalms 75:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For promotion, &c.— For exaltation is not from the east nor west, nor from the wilderness; Psalms 75:7 but God is judge: he humbleth one, and exalteth another. Mudge. Dr. Delaney thinks,...
Psalms 75:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: -In reliance on God's promise ( Psalms 75:2-3 ), Israel warns the haughty foe no more to lift up the neck in...
Psalms 75:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

In contrast with the plaintive strains of Psalms 74 this is a Ps. of thanksgiving for some national deliverance ( Psalms 75:1 ). It celebrates God as the Judge of all the earth, who interposes in H...
Psalms 75:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For promotion... — The Authorised Version has here rightly set aside the pointing of the text, which, as the LXX. and Vulg., reads — “For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the wilder...
Psalms 75:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 75:1-10 THIS psalm deals with the general thought of God's judgment in history, especially on heathen nations. It has no clear marks of connection with any particular instance of that judgm...
Psalms 75:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

God Putteth down and Lifteth up Psalms 75:1-10 This psalm dates probably from Sennacherib's invasion, and therefore the North is omitted in Psalms 75:6 , that being the quarter from which th...
Psalms 75:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

If this, and the former psalm, were written by different men and at different periods, then the spiritual sense of the editor is most clearly revealed in their juxtaposition in this book. This is a c...
Psalms 75:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Jesus proclaims grace to the humble, and destruction to the proud. Reader, our nature by the fall is truly ignorant: and next to the absolute ruin of our nature by sin, the most awful effect of Adam'...
Psalms 75:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. It is not from men, from themselves, or others, or from any quarter under the heavens, but from God; it is he that...
Psalms 75:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ver. 6. For promotion cometh neither from the east ] Dignitatis nullum est emporium. Ambitionists used to loo...
Psalms 75:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For promotion cometh not , &c. Though you envy and oppose my advancement, because I was but a poor shepherd, and of a mean family; yet you ought to know and consider what is notorious and visibl...
Psalms 75:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

God's Government of the World. 6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. ...
Psalms 75:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

For though you envy and oppose my advancement, because I was but a poor shepherd, and of a mean family; yet you ought to know and consider what is notorious and visible in the world, that the digniti...
Psalms 75:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician, Altaschith :” see introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Pslam—a song of Asaph :” see introduction to Psalms 74 . “There are,” says Perowne, “no c...
Psalms 75:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Title. Al-taschith: do not suffer me to perish. The style indicates that this was a psalm of David, when the courtiers of Saul had pronounced him guilty of high treason for aiming at the throne. He...
Psalms 75:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

For that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare. God’s nearness to the world I. He is near as the sustainer of a dissolving system ( Psalms 75:3 ). The force of disintegration operates eve...
Psalms 75:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION This is a hymn of praise in anticipation of a deliverance, which may be from Sennacherib, or from some other dangerous enemy. The actual praise is confined to the first and the last t...
Psalms 75:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Church Praises the Nearness of God's Judgment. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of public worship, Al-taschith, according to the melody "Destroy Not," a psalm or song of A...
Psalms 75:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Samuel 16:7 ; Matthew 7:21 ; Matthew 7:23 ; Psalms 29:8 ; Psalms 55:7 ; Psalms 63:1 ; Psalms 65:12

Psalms 75:6 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Psalms 75:6 - Calvin's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 75:6 - Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Psalms 75:6 - John Trapp Complete Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 75:6 - Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Psalms 75:6 - Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Psalms 75:6 - The Biblical Illustrator

Psalms 75:6 - The Complete Pulpit Commentary

Psalms 75:6 - The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Psalms 75:6 - Treasury of Scripture Knowledge