New King James Version
Psalms 75:3
3The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah
Psalms 75:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
- New International Version (NIV)When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.
- English Standard Version (ESV)When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah
- New Living Translation (NLT)When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. Interlude
Context of Psalms 75:3
1We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near. 2“When I choose the proper time, I will judge uprightly. The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah 4“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal boastfully,’ And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn. 5Do not lift up your horn on high; Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
Read all of Psalms 75Psalms 75:3 word by word
נְֽמֹגִ֗ים אֶ֥רֶץ וְכָל־יֹשְׁבֶ֑יהָ אָנֹכִ֨י תִכַּ֖נְתִּי עַמּוּדֶ֣יהָ סֶּֽלָה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 75:3
- Psalms 60:1O God, You have cast us off; You have broken us down; You have been displeased; Oh, restore us again!
- Psalms 78:60So that He forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, The tent He had placed among men,
- 1 Samuel 31:1Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell slain on Mount Gilboa.
- Isaiah 24:1Behold, the Lord makes the earth empty and makes it waste, Distorts its surface And scatters abroad its inhabitants.
- 1 Samuel 18:7So the women sang as they danced, and said: “Saul has slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands.”
- 1 Samuel 25:28Please forgive the trespass of your maidservant. For the Lord will certainly make for my lord an enduring house, because my lord fights the battles of the Lord, and evil is not found in you throughout your days.
- 2 Samuel 5:2Also, in time past, when Saul was king over us, you were the one who led Israel out and brought them in; and the Lord said to you, ‘You shall shepherd My people Israel, and be ruler over Israel.’ ”
- Isaiah 49:8Thus says the Lord: “In an acceptable time I have heard You, And in the day of salvation I have helped You; I will preserve You and give You As a covenant to the people, To restore the earth, To cause them to inherit the desolate heritages;
- Hebrews 1:3who being the brightness of His glory and the express image of His person, and upholding all things by the word of His power, when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high,
- 1 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust And lifts the beggar from the ash heap, To set them among princes And make them inherit the throne of glory. “For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s, And He has set the world upon them.
Commentaries on Psalms 75:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved - They all depend on me; and whenever I withdraw the power by which they exist and live, they are immediately dissolved. I bear up the pillars of it - By the word of my power all things are upheld, and without me nothing can subsist. Those who consider this Psalm to have been written by David before he was anointed king over All Israel, understand the words thus: "All is at present in a state of…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved - The word rendered “dissolved” means properly to melt, to flow down; then, to melt away, to pine away, to perish. Isaiah 64:7; Job 30:22; Nahum 1:5; Psalm 107:26. Here it means that there was, as it were, a general breaking up of things; or that none of the institutions of the land seemed to have any stability. There seemed to be no government, but universal anarchy and confusion. I bear up the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-8The Lord will bring justice in his own time.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2-32-3. 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; Ho 2:3), or an assembly at a set time--that is, for judging.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 75
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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