I. ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE (1). Worship presented. National. IT. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PURPOSE (2-3). Righteous Judgment. The Adminstrator Revealed. Selah. Ill. ADMONITION TO ADVERSARIES (4-8). 1. The Rebuke (4-5). 2. The Reasons ( 6-8 ).
IV. ASCRIPTION OF PRAISE (9). Worship promised. Personal. V. ANNOUNCEMENT OF PURPOSE (ro). RighteousJudgment. The Alternatives Re-affirmed. r. Extermination of the Godless. 2. Exaltation of the Godly. SUPERSCRIPT.-A Psalm of (or, for) Asaph. A Song. SUBSCRIPT.-For the Chief Musician; on Neginoth. PRIMARY AssocIATION.-Writer and occasion uncertain, but there is a strong link in thought and language with the next psalm and it may belong to the same period. It follows the appeal of lxxiv. and is the answer from God. Note the dramatic form of con;iposi tion. God's enemies are warned and God's people encouraged. "N eginoth," see notes Ps. iii. PROPHETIC ANTICIPATION.-Messiah anticipates receiving the kingdom at the appointed time (2) and as Äod's representative Ruler, He judges in holiness. He is seen too as Leader of Israel's praises. In His millennial kingdom, Christ is still the perfect Servant doing the will of God. He whom all nations will opey is still the obedient One bringing to fruition the purposes of God. PERSONAL APPLICATION.-The enemy may surround, but all the works of God declare His nÅamess (I). Another argument that God is not indifferent to human affairs is found here (2). Note the time, the principle and the certainty of the judgment (2). Though the whole world may be in terror and confusion, God from the :first has ordained fundamental laws which are working to adjust the disorder resulting from the sin of man. This will be fully displayed when Messiah reigns (3). Presumptuous boasters should take warning from words uttered in grace (4-5). Do not look to any quarter of the earth for help (6), look up (7). Bitter indeed will be the cup of wrath which the wicked of the earth will be forced to drink (8). Lawlessness will not go unpunished nor righteousness unrewarded (ro). The world can never get completely out of liand (3). Those who lift themselves up against God (4) will be surely cast down (7). VERSE NOTES r-3. Thanksgiving for recent manifestation of God's presence and power among His people; "name near" = attributes (of power, etc.) displayed.
REVELATlON OF THE DIV'lNB HOLINESS 2. Br. "When I reach the appointed time, I (emph.) will judge uprightly:' 3. Br. "Though the earth with all the inhabitants thereof .. . I (emph.) have established ... ;' cf. Isa. xxxvii. 26. T h · cl '' b "b b 4. ense is prop et1c past; arrogant ... arrogan y, r. oasters . . . oast not;' c£ lxxiii. 3. 5. Metaphor from animals tossing their heads; denotes defiant self-sufficiency; (b) LXX has "Nor speak of the Rock with arrogance:' 6. "south,, = Egypt, c£ Isa. xx.xvi. 4-6. North not mentioned, perhaps, because the Assyrians and the Chaldeans came from that direction. Moreover, in Scripture, the north seems referred to as the place where God's judgment-throne is set; c£ Job xxvi. 7; xxxvii. 22; Isa. xiv. 13; Ezk. i. 4; Lev. i. II. Both ideas may be conveyed, e.g. inJer. i. 14; iv. 6; vi. I. There was no hopeforJerusalemfrom any quarter of the globe, only from above (7). 7. Cf. Isa. xxxiii. 22. 8. The figure of a cup is frequently used in Scripture as a symbol of divine judgment; "mixture,,-wine is often spiced to make it more seduc:tive, and forti fied to make it more potent, cf. Rev. xiv. 10; xvi. 19. 9. "But as for me, I •.. will psalm unto ... " IO. "lifted up,,; expression five times in the psalm; c£ I Sam. •ii. 10.
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