1 Samuel 16:7; Matthew 7:21; Matthew 7:23; Psalms 29:8; Psalms 55:7; Psalms 63:1; Psalms 65:12
For promotion - The word used here in the original, and rendered “promotion” - הרים hariym - is susceptible of two quite different significat...
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 j...
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 . T...
6. For exaltations come neither from the east nor from the west. (258) The prophet here furnishes an admirable remedy for correcting pride,...
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 Lor...
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,...
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 wa...
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...
Read, 'For neither from.. cometh judgment.' Foreign invasions of Israel generally came from the N., and deliverance might naturally be looked for f...
For promotion... — The Authorised Version has here rightly set aside the pointing of the text, which, as the LXX. and Vulg., reads — “For not fro...
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 con...
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...
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 reveale...
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...
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 quar...
For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Ver. 6. For promotion cometh neither from the east ] Dignita...
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...
God's Government of the World. 6 For promotion cometh neither from...
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 no...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician, Altaschith :” see introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Pslam—a song of Asaph :” see introduction...
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 g...
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 ( Psalm...
God is the judge: He putteth down one, and setteth up another. Getting on It is not a trivial question, whether your life, my young friend, is...
EXPOSITION This is a hymn of praise in anticipation of a deliverance, which may be from Sennacherib, or from some other dangerous enemy. The act...
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...
For promotion cometh neither from the east nor from the west nor from the south, from the mountainous desert, no earthly power can bring either oppre...
6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.b