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Te damos gracias, oh Dios, te damos gracias, pues cercano está tu nombre; los hombres declaran tus maravillas.
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Cuando yo escoja el tiempo oportuno, seré yo quien juzgará con equidad.
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Tiemblan la tierra y todos sus moradores, mas yo sostengo sus columnas. (Selah)
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Dije a los orgullosos: No os jactéis; y a los impíos: No alcéis la frente;
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no levantéis en alto vuestra frente; no habléis con orgullo insolente.
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Porque ni del oriente ni del occidente, ni del desierto viene el enaltecimiento;
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sino que Dios es el juez; a uno humilla y a otro ensalza.
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Porque hay un cáliz en la mano del SEÑOR, y el vino fermenta, lleno de mixtura, y de éste El sirve; ciertamente lo sorberán hasta las heces y lo beberán todos los impíos de la tierra.
To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. Of the word "altaschith," See Gill on "Ps 57:1," it signifies "do not destroy," or "do not corrupt"; the Targum renders it, "do not destroy thy people;" so Jarchi, "do not destroy Israel;" perhaps it may be considered as a petition, that God would not suffer the man of sin to go on to destroy the earth, and corrupt the inhabitants of it with his false doctrine, idolatry, and superstition, Revelation 11:18, for the psalm respects the times of the Gospel dispensation, and includes both the first coming of Christ in the flesh, and his second coming to judgment; the argument of it with the Syriac version is, "the divinity of Christ, and a remembrance of the judgment;" it is said to be a psalm or song of Asaph, but is thought to be written by David, and delivered to Asaph; for it may be rendered "for Asaph" {k}; and so the Targum, "by the hands of Asaph;" though some think it was written after the Babylonish captivity; perhaps by some person whose name was Asaph, or was of the family of him that lived in David's time. Theodoret supposes it was written in the person of the captives in Babylon.