Psalms 76:1-12 - The Biblical Illustrator

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In Judah is God known: His name is great in Israel.

Glorious aspects of the Divine character

I. As the glorious resident in the midst of His people (Psalms 76:1-2). God is everywhere; but is in an especial sense present with holy souls. They are represented as His “temple,” which implies--

1. Special connection with Him.

2. Special consecration to Him.

3. Special manifestation of Him.

II. As the triumphant conqueror of his enemies. He does His work--

1. Thoroughly (Psalms 76:3-5).

2. Easily (Psalms 76:6). His word is the fire that will burn up corruption, the hammer that will break the rocky heart, the sword that will slay moral evil.

3. Judicially (Psalms 76:8-9). God is infinitely just in crushing all evil. Satan is a usurper, and all his hosts are rebels. As a just God, He will put all-enemies under His feel. In a moral sense, God is a “God of battles.” He is eternally warring against wrong.

III. As the absolute master of malign passions (Psalms 76:10).

1. He subordinates human wrath. As the mariner makes the gale his servant to bear his vessel to the port, so God makes the malign passions of men and devils to bear on His great purposes to their complete fulfilment.

2. He restrains it. He allows the wrath of His creatures to go no further than He chooses. As He has set a boundary to the ocean, He has also to the human passions. “So far shalt thou go, and no further.”

IV. As the supreme object of human worship (Psalms 76:11). This implies two things.

1. Devout resolutions. “Vow and pay unto the Lord your God.” In this clause we have the fundamental God, and do right, and we shall get on as much as He thinks good for us. (A. K. H. Boyd, D. D.)

Related Commentaries of Psalms 76:1

Psalms 76:1-12

1 In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.

2 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and his dwelling place in Zion.

3 There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.

4 Thou art more glorious and excellent than the mountains of prey.

5 The stouthearted are spoiled, they have slept their sleep: and none of the men of might have found their hands.

6 At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, both the chariot and horse are cast into a dead sleep.

7 Thou, even thou, art to be feared: and who may stand in thy sight when once thou art angry?

8 Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven; the earth feared, and was still,

9 When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

10 Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: the remainder of wrath shalt thou restrain.

11 Vow, and pay unto the LORD your God: let all that be round about him bring presents unto him that ought to be feared.

12 He shall cut off the spirit of princes: he is terrible to the kings of the earth.