Tree of Life Version
Psalms 75:2
2We praise You, we praise God, for Your Name is near. People declare Your wonders.
Psalms 75:2 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
- New International Version (NIV)You say, “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge with equity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)"At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
- New King James Version (NKJV)“When I choose the proper time, I will judge uprightly.
Context of Psalms 75:2
1For the music director: “Do not Destroy,” a psalm of Asaph, a song. We praise You, we praise God, for Your Name is near. People declare Your wonders. 3“When I appoint a set time, I Myself will judge uprightly. 4When the earth wavers with living on it, I Myself hold its pillars firm. Selah
Read all of Psalms 75Psalms 75:2 word by word
כִּ֭י אֶקַּ֣ח מוֹעֵ֑ד אֲ֝נִ֗י מֵישָׁרִ֥ים אֶשְׁפֹּֽט׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 75:2
- Psalms 78:70He also chose David His servant and took him from the sheepfolds,
- Psalms 101:2I will behave wisely in the way of integrity —when will You come to me? I walk in my house with integrity in my heart.
- 2 Samuel 2:4Then the men of Judah came and there anointed David king over the house of Judah. Then they told David saying, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
- 2 Samuel 5:3So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, and King David cut a covenant with them at Hebron before Adonai. Then they anointed David king over Israel.
- 2 Samuel 8:15David reigned over all Israel, and David executed justice and righteousness for all his people.
- 2 Samuel 23:3The God of Israel has said, the Rock of Israel has spoken to me, ‘He who rules over men righteously, he who rules in the fear of God—
- Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart: “The righteous and the wicked, God will judge. For there is a time for every activity and for every deed.”
- John 7:6Therefore Yeshua said to them, “My time has not yet come, but your time is always at hand.
- Acts 1:7He said to them, “It is not your place to know the times or seasons which the Father has placed under His own control.
- Acts 17:31For He has set a day on which He will judge the world in righteousness, through a Man whom He has appointed. He has brought forth evidence of this to all men, by raising Him from the dead.”
Commentaries on Psalms 75:2
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 2When I shall receive the congregation - When the proper time is come that the congregation, my people of Israel, should be brought out of captivity, and received back into favor, I shall not only enlarge them, but punish their enemies. They shall be cut off and cast out, and become a more miserable people than those whom they now insult. I will destroy them as a nation, so that they shall never more be numbered among the empires of the earth.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 2When I shall receive the congregation - The marginal rendering is, “Take a set time.” The phrase is thus rendered in most of the versions. So the Septuagint, “When I take the time” - ̔́ ́ ̀ hotan labō kairon So the Vulgate, “When I accept the time.” So Luther, “When in its own time.” So De Wette, “When I take the time.” According to this interpretation, this is the language of God, as if implying that, although “the earth” was then “dissolved,” or…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
In the dictionaries
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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