Psalms 76:9

9 when God arises to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. (Selah)

Psalms 76:9 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 76:9

When God arose to judgment
He may sometimes seem to be asleep, and to defer judgment, but he will arise and hasten it in his own time, and will take vengeance on all his and his people's enemies, as he did upon the army of the Assyrians, and will upon the antichristian powers, and upon all the wicked, and at the same time will save his own people, as follows:

to save all the meek of the earth;
the quiet in the land, who are afflicted in this world, despised by the men of it, are lowly and humble, and mean in their own eyes; these the Lord takes notice of and cares for them, he will beautify them with salvation; these, all of them, even everyone of them, shall be saved in him with an everlasting salvation; this verse is by some connected with the preceding; so Kimchi, "the earth feared, and was still, when God arose to judgment", &c. and by others, as R. Moses and Aben Ezra, with the following.

Selah. (See Gill on Psalms 3:2).

Psalms 76:9 In-Context

7 You are fearsome! When once you are angry, who can stand in your presence?
8 You pronounce sentence from heaven; the earth grows silent with fear
9 when God arises to judge, to save all the humble of the earth. (Selah)
10 Human wrath serves only to praise you; what remains of this wrath you wear as an ornament.
11 Make vows to ADONAI your God, and keep them; all who are around him must bring presents to the one who should be feared.
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