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(a) Read Ps 57:1. (b) He declares how the faithful will always have opportunity to praise God, as in their need they will feel his power at hand to help them. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. {c} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
(c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come and set all things in good order. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars {d} of it. Selah.
(d) Though all things are brought to ruin, yet I can restore and preserve them. I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. Lift not up your {e} horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
(e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another. But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
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. For in the hand of the LORD there is a {f} 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.
(f) God's wrath is compared to a cup of strong and delicate wine, with which the wicked are made so drunk that by drinking till they come to the very dregs they are utterly destroyed. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the {g} righteous shall be exalted. (g) The godly will better prosper by their innocent simplicity, than the wicked will by all their craft and subtilty. The Geneva Bible Translation Notes [1599] Bible Hub |
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