Psalm 75 – Skeptic's Annotated Bible answered

A response and reply to the notes on Psalm 75 in the Skeptic's Annotated Bible (SAB).

King James Version

SAB comment

My comment


1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

God holds the earth up with pillars.
That God upholds this earth should be understood figuratively: it is by his grace, mercy and power that this earth has not been dissolved. And with the current atomic powers available, can we really trust in men that this earth will not be destroyed by themselves? But in God we can trust.

4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

6 For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

7 But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

8 For in the hand of the LORD there is a 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.

9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.