When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
When I shall receive the congregation, I will judge uprightly - the reply of Yahweh to the thanksgiving prayer of His people. The abruptness of the introduction of the new Speaker, God, marks how immediate is His response to His people's believing prayer, even "while they are yet speaking" (Isaiah 65:24). Herein is set forth in detail the subject of the Church's praise in Psalms 75:1 - namely, God's "name, is near." You may be thus full of thanksgivings,' God replies, 'for when I shall, etc. 'When I shall have taken under my charge the congregation of my people, I will judge their enemies.' So Christ comes again to take the elect Church to Himself, and shall at that time judge her enemies (Revelation 11:12; Revelation 11:15; Revelation 11:17; Revelation 19:7). The English version takes the Hebrew in the sense in which the word is translated in Psalms 74:4, 'congregation.' But the context and the parallels, Psalms 102:13 (the same Hebrew х mow`eed (H4150)], "the set time," for the Lord to arise and have mercy on Zion), and all the ancient versions, the Septuagint, Syriac, Chaldaic, etc., favor the translation, (see margin) 'When (or for, Hengstenberg) I shall get (implying earnest desire for it) the set time,' etc. (cf. Daniel 8:19; Daniel 11:27; Daniel 11:35; Daniel 12:8; Daniel 12:12-13; Habakkuk 2:3).
"The times and seasons which the Father hath put in His own power;" the time for "restoring again the kingdom to Israel" (Acts 1:6-7), when the measure of the enemy's iniquity shall be full, and "the times of the Gentiles fulfilled" (Luke 21:24). God does nothing precipitately or prematurely, yet in due time "He will avenge His own elect, though He bear long with them" (Luke 18:7). Compare the pagan sentiment, 'Sera tamen tacitis paena venit pedibus;' also Valerius Maximus, 'Tardidatem poence gravitate compensat.' When the chastisement of His Church is completed, He then punishes finally and irretrievably the enemy (Isaiah 10:12). This and other phrases in the psalm show that, besides the present reference to Hezekiah's and Seunacherib's times, there was designed by the Spirit an ulterior reference to the Lord's final coming to glorify His saints, and to judge His and their enemies. I will Judge uprightly - taking the kingdom out of the hands of those who have abused their trust, and not judged uprightly (Psalms 1:1-6; Psalms 58:1).