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1 We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. Copyright StatementThese files are public domain and are a derivative of an electronic edition that is available on the Christian Classics Ethereal Library Website. This may be accounted for, supposing the Psalm to refer to Sennacherib, by the fact that the Assyrian army approached from the north; and therefore it would be natural to look in all directions but that for assistance to repel the invader. 2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. ; or strength, Micah 4:13, "I will make thine horn iron." Happy were the people who having found a Milton in David had an almost equal songster in Asaph: happiest of all, because these poets were not inspired by earth's Castalian fount, but drank of "the fount of every blessing.". Is not he a fool who lays a snare for himself? Ver. The Lord bids the boasters boast not, and commands the mad oppressors to stay their folly. Then follows a warning voice from the church to her enemies, Psalms 75:6-8, and a closing song anticipatory of the glory due to God and the utter defeat of the foe. We 1 recount your wondrous deeds. In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red (which notes fierce wrath); and it is full of mixture. And it is not a sip or two shall serve their turns; they must drink all, dregs and all, they shall drink it to the bottom and yet they shall never come to the bottom; they have loved long draughts, and now they shall have one long enough; there is eternity to the bottom. 8. 75 We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is n near. 8. Though deliverance be hopeless from all points of the compass, yet God can work it for his people; and though judgment come neither from the rising or the setting of the sun, nor from the wilderness of mountains, yet come it will, for the Lord reigneth. The wine is red, or "the wine foameth, "i.e. Ver. According to Do Not Destroy. Title. But now it is full of mixture: alas, this mixture spoils all. how often are all these hopes blighted and a succession of reverses humbles our spirits. He exalts one and puts down another at his pleasure. As there's an universality of the judgment, so there's universality of the sufferers; they shall drink all of it, and they shall all of them drink it, that so no man may favour or flatter himself with hope of escape. By way of distribution, as giving to every one. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF C. H. SPURGEON Within this set you can access other study helps [ bible, theology, commentary, sermons, and more ]. The outstretched neck of insolent pride is sure to provoke his axe. Promotion; or, lifting up. Kings are but puppets in his hand; they serve his purpose when they rise and when they fall. As that emperor who fed his lion with a pheasant. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up. The Lord the stay of his people under the worst circumstances. This is generally believed to be the voice of God, who will, when he accepts his people, mount his judgment seat and avenge their cause in righteousness. Joseph Caryl. This mixture is of judgments, plagues, and punishments; "this is the portion of their cup" (Psalms 11:1-7). The original is bremmw (umimmagnarab) and it means duskiness, darkness, and the setting sun, --hence the west. If one had a child very beautiful, yet if he were a fool, the parent would have little joy in him. Ver. For infinite goodness there should be measureless thanks. Unto thee do we give thanks. Then follows a warning voice from the church to her enemies, Psalms 75:6-8, and a closing song anticipatory of the glory due to God and the utter … They who have drunk so willingly and freely of the cup of sin, shall be forced, whether they will or no, to drink the cup of judgment. But yet so long as it is in the cup, they need not meddle with it: nay, but the Lord will pour it out; he shall hold their mouths to it, and make them drink it: the rankest poison in the world, the gall of dragons, and venom of asps, is pleasant and healthful to it. Psalm 75:1 In Hebrew texts 75:1-10 is numbered 75:2-11. The foolish dream that he is not, but he is near even now, and on the way to bring in his hand that cup of spiced wine of vengeance, one draught of which shall stagger all his foes. This cup shall not pass from them, but they shall drink of it, even against their stomachs, where they never so much loath it. Ver. A godless man is like the Arabian desert, of no profit to himself or his neighbours; like ever shifting sands being tossed to and fro by his own wayward passions; heated with the suns of turbulence, self will, and recklessness, he is a desert, a waste where God will not vouchsafe the light of his countenance for promotion. It is mixed with the wrath of God, the malice of Satan, the anguish of soul, the gall of sin, the tears of despair: it is red, that is, of a sanguine colour, the wine of blood. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. It is a cup: well, there is a cup that David thirsts for: "I will take the cup of salvation." God's providence is the true Atlas which supports the world, and doth shoulder up the world, whilst it treads on sin and sinners. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. There seems to be here an allusion to the cup of malediction, as the Jews called that "mixed cup of wine" and frankincense, which used to be given to condemned criminals before their execution, in order to take away their senses. He has power and authority in himself, and also royal dignity given him of his Father. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks. Prayer Will Win the Nations: Three Ways to Pray for Missionaries. This also is a truth; in that sense we may say, "Fair weather cometh from the north." Richard Mant. 8. Spurgeon's wife said that if Spurgeon had never written any other work, this would have been a permanent literary memorial. Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks. Exposition of Psalm 119:73-80. by Charles Spurgeon. To humble and cast down was often represented by the figure of breaking or cutting off the horn, as here (Psalms 75:10). And lest any drops should be left behind, they shall wring them out, and suck them down to their confusion. Ver. We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? He putteth down one, and setteth up another. Three quarters are mentioned, the north only being omitted. As the smiling flowers gratefully reflect in their lovely colours the various constituents of the solar ray, so should gratitude spring up in our hearts after the smiles of God's providence. Thomas Horton. Ver. Ver. Let the appointed assize come, O Jesus, and sit thou on thy throne to judge the world in equity. Promotion comes not from the east, nor west, nor south, but from the north. When nations or individuals are prosperous, and glorious, and powerful, they usually ascribe all to themselves or to fortune. For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup. Like the previous psalms, Psalm 75 speaks of the Jews in exile, and praises God for preserving them. Ver. Psalm 75. This seems to have been used by David as a maxim during the violent persecutions of Saul, as if to remind himself to forebear revenge, though it was often in his power to inflict it, upon his unnatural enemy. Impudence before God is madness. PSALM 75 OVERVIEW. Commentary on Psalm 75:6-10. Ver. A certain author has issued a work called "Historic Ninepins, "(Timbs), a fit name of scorn for all the great ones of the earth. In the next four Ps 75:2-5, the Lord reveals himself as ruling the world in righteousness. From God alone all must receive their doom. Matthew Henry’s Bible Commentary (concise), Matthew Henry Bible Commentary (complete), California - Do Not Sell My Personal Information. "Near is his name." Condensed from a Sermon by Gregory Bateman, preached March 16th, 1862, on his entering upon the Vicarage of Ulrome. 3. I will judge p with equity. Spices of anger, justice, and incensed mercy are there. Ver. See Psalms on "Psalms 72:9" for further information. 1. I answer; --it were answer enough to say, that we ought not to put questions curiously about such things; it should satisfy us that the Spirit of God is pleased to say it is so, and no more. His seat is not vacant; his authority is not abdicated; the Lord reigneth evermore. It is full of mixture: it hath no mixture of good, no sweetness at all in it, but all sorts of evil are mingled in out of the world; but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink: they have not only the cup, but the dregs of the cup, that is, the worst of the cup; for as in a good cup, the deeper the sweeter; so in an evil cup, the deeper the worse: the dregs and the worst, the bottom is the bitterest of a bitter cup. as it is poured into the cup from the wine jar, as is expressed in the next member of the verse. Ver. Their misdeeds, their blasphemies, their persecutions have strengthened the liquor as with potent drugs; Ten thousand woes are burning in the depths of that fiery cup, which to the brim is filled with indignation. No second causes will raise men to preferment without the First Cause. 2. Here, to lift up the horn betokens presumption. This psalm is titled A Contemplation of Asaph.The author Asaph was the great singer and musician of David and Solomon’s era (1 Chronicles 15:17-19, 16:5-7; 2 Chronicles 29:13). Who art thou, thou worm, that thou shouldest arrogantly object against thy Maker's laws and cavil at his truth? Though this psalm is attributed to Asaph in the title, yet it does so exactly agree with David’s circumstances, at his coming to the crown after the death of Saul, that most interpreters apply it to that juncture, and suppose that either Asaph penned it, in the person of David, as his poet-laureat (probably the substance of … Teacheth us that no disorder or confusion should hinder us from doing that which God requireth of us; nay, rather, the more things are out of order the more readily should we labour to redress them. Ver. 2 “At o the set time that I appoint. The retribution is terrible, it is blood for blood, foaming vengeance for foaming malice. A psalm of Asaph. But the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. 8. But a different signification is intended; it is that spices are mingled with the wine. It comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. Desiring God. Full of mixture. Or, Rebuke of sin, a duty. 1. "Four Friends.". Arguments against pride in heart, appearance, and speech. But God is the judge. 73. It comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. Empires rise and fall at his bidding. Al-taschith. The word horn was used in the Hebrew metaphorically to express either honour, as Ps 112:9 132:18, etc. It is enough to touch these niceties, and to touch them can do no hurt, while the matter arising from them hath the clear consent of, and is harmonious with other plain places of Scripture. All of His character attributes and goodness is near to His people. Then let sinners submit to the King of righteousness, and let believers rejoice in and obey him. In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, etc. But one could never imagine such a thought arising in the heart, or proceeding from the lips of David or Hezekiah. but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them. Promotion is visible, but the manner of it is a secret; we see not the causes for which, nor the ways in which it cometh. Alexander Carson. 8. 6-10. 3. Even to the bitter end must wrath proceed. Mark well, it is for all the wicked; all hell for all the ungodly; the dregs for the dregs; bitters for the bitter; wrath for the heirs of wrath. Those who carry their heads high shall find that they will be lifted yet higher, as Haman was upon the gallows which he had prepared for the righteous man. They that fear thee will be glad when they see me; because I have hoped in thy word. In this he generally uses instrumentality, but that instrumentality is always rendered effectual by his own agency. Proverbs 8:36. Would to God that all proud men would obey the word here given them; for, if they do not, he will take effectual means to secure obedience, and then woe will come upon them, such as shall break their horns and roll their glory in the mire for ever. Psalm 76. We sing not of a hidden God, who sleeps and leaves the church to her fate, but of one who ever in our darkest days is most near, a very present help in trouble. And then, thirdly, there's another thing also which is much observable in the afflictions of God's people, which makes this mixture complete, and that is, a mixture of improvement and edification. When nations or individuals are prosperous, and glorious, and powerful, they usually ascribe all to themselves or to fortune. Stinted gratitude is ingratitude. God saved them from the King of Assyria. Bible. 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