Ps 75:1
75:1 <> Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, [unto
     thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near {b}
     thy wondrous works declare.

     (a) Read Ps 57:1.
     (b) He declares how the faithful will always have
         opportunity to praise God, as in their need they will
         feel his power at hand to help them.

Ps 75:2
75:2 {c} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge
     uprightly.

     (c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I
         will come and set all things in good order.

Ps 75:3
75:3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I
     bear up the pillars {d} of it. Selah.

     (d) Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can
         restore and preserve them.

Ps 75:5
75:5 Lift not up your {e} horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff
     neck.

     (e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set
         themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his
         time destroys them who rule wickedly.

Ps 75:8
75:8 For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a {f} 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].

     (f) God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate
         wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by
         drinking till they come to the very dregs they are
         utterly destroyed.

Ps 75:10
75:10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the
      horns of the {g} righteous shall be exalted.

      (g) The godly will better prosper by their innocent
          simplicity, than the wicked will by all their craft
          and subtilty.

This document is from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library at Calvin College. Last updated on May 27, 1999. Contacting the CCEL.