Psalms 75:1-10 - Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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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 time. He holds the brimming cup of wine, and all must drink.

Psalms 75:1. for. works: read, We have called on thy name: we have told of thy wondrous works (LXX).

Psalms 75:2. For the appointed time long delayed but sure to come, cf. Habakkuk 2:3.

Psalms 75:3. Follow mg.

Psalms 75:6 b. Read, Nor yet from the wilderness or the mountains (cf. mg.) cometh it (the sentence of exaltation or depression).

Psalms 75:8. The imagery of the cup is found in Jeremiah 25:15 ff. and elsewhere. mixture refers to herbs which increased the intoxicating power of the wine. Read, He poureth it out to one after another (LXX).

Psalms 75:9. declare: read, rejoice. In Psalms 75:9 f. the poet again speaks.

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Psalms 75:1-10

1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

2 When I shall receivea the congregation I will judge uprightly.

3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

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

7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a 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.

9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.