Psalms 75:2

¹We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works. ²“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly. ³When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah

Sermons

A Plea for Relief Part 4

Chuck Smith

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Summary

This verse acknowledges God's sovereignty and authority over all things, affirming that He judges with equity. It reminds believers that God is the ultimate Judge who will bring justice to the world. The psalmist expresses confidence in God's righteous judgment, reassuring that He will deal justly with the wicked and the righteous. It serves as a call to trust in God's perfect judgment and to find comfort in His righteous ways, knowing that He will ultimately bring about justice and righteousness.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
John Gill
Tyndale

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

These verses express the purpose of God to administer a just government, and in a time of anarchy that He sustains the nation. Some apply the words to the Psalmist. receive the congregation--literally, "take a set time" (Psa 102:13; Hos 2:3), or an assembly at a set time--that is, for judging.

John Gill Bible Commentary

When I shall receive the congregation,.... Some render it, from the Arabic signification of the word, "the promise" (o); the Spirit promised, the gifts of the Spirit, which Christ received for men, and gave to men, whereby he executes the judgment or government of the church committed to him: others the time, so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Ethiopic, Syriac, and Arabic versions, to which agrees the Targum, the word signifying a set appointed time, Psa 102:14, and so may respect the time appointed for the judgment of the world, which when come, Christ will execute in a most righteous manner, as follows; see Act 17:31, but whereas the people of Israel met at the door of the tabernacle, which from thence was called "Ohel Moed", the tabernacle of the congregation; hence the word is used for a congregation, and here designs the general assembly and church of the firstborn written in heaven, even all the elect of God; these were received by Christ of his Father in eternity, when he espoused them to himself, and undertook the care of them; and they are received by him, one by one, in effectual calling; and in like manner are they received by him into glory at death; but when they are all gathered in, and are prepared for him as a bride for her husband, then will he receive them all in a body, and present them to himself a glorious church during the thousand years' reign; upon which will proceed the judgment of the wicked; see Rev 20:5, I will judge uprightly; in equity, in strict justice, in the most righteous manner, rendering to every man according to his works; hence the future judgment is called a righteous one, and so is the Judge; no injustice will be done to men, but the strictest integrity, uprightness, and impartiality, will be observed in pronouncing the several sentences on the righteous and on the wicked, and in adjudging them to their several places and states. (o) "promissa", Schultens animadv. p. 174. "festi dona", Gusset. p. 334.