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Psalms 75:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary on Psalms 75:1-10

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

The righteous judgment of God.

This psalm celebrates in prophetic strain the righteous judgment of God. The voice of God himself declares from heaven his righteousness; that he is not, as human impertinence has been wont to think, regardless of wrong and suffering, but only waits for the moment which to his infinite wisdom seems best.

I. GOD'S RIGHTEOUS GOVERNMENT OF THE WORLD.

1. God's wonderful work in history attests it. (.) "What nation is there that hath God so near unto them?" (). He is not separated by distance from the world. His Name, his nature, is near to us.

2. God's times of judgment are wisely and divinely chosen. (, "When the set time is come, I, even I, will judge uprightly.") He executes his sentence not according to man's impatient expectations, but at the time which he himself has chosen.

3. When the moral order of the world seems near dissolution, Goers power is the security for its continuance. (.) The natural and the moral framework of the world are here identified, He sustains the world by the pillars which he has set up.

4. God is the real Source of every righteous revolution in the world. (, .) "Glory and power come not from any earthly source, though a man should seek it in every quarter of the globe, but only from God, who lifteth up and casteth down according to his own righteous sentence."

II. THE ADMONITION WHICH THESE TRUTHS ADMINISTER TO THE WICKED. (, .)

1. It is madness to resist God. (.)

2. No arrogant self-exaltation will avail against God's judgments. (, .) The poet speaks here as a prophet. That which God threatens he accomplishes by the hands of his servants. "Though hand join in hand, the wicked shall not go unpunished"—S.

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