Psalms 76:9

9 when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly 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 alone are to be feared. When You are angry, who can stand before You?
8 From heaven You pronounced judgment, and the earth feared and was still
9 when God rose up to judge, to save all the lowly of the earth. Selah
10 Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
11 Make and fulfill your vows to the LORD your God; let all the neighboring lands bring tribute to Him who is to be feared.
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