Psalms 75:2
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“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
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Though this psalm is attributed to Asaph in the title, yet it does so exactly agree with David's circumstances, at his coming to the crown after the death of Saul, that most interpreters apply it to that juncture, and suppose that either Asaph penned it, in the person of David, as his poet-laureat (probably the substance of the psalm was some speech which David made to a convention of the states, at his accession to the government, and Asaph turned it into verse, and published it in a poem, for the better spreading of it among the people), or that David penned it, and delivered it to Asaph as precentor of the temple. In this psalm, I. David returns God thanks for bringing him to the throne (Psa 75:1, Psa 75:9). II. He promises to lay out himself for the public good, in the use of the power God had given him (Psa 75:2, Psa 75:3, Psa 75:10). III. He checks the insolence of those that opposed his coming to the throne (Psa 75:4, Psa 75:5). IV. He fetches a reason for all this from God's sovereign dominion in the affairs of the children of men (Psa 75:6-8). In singing this psalm we must give to God the glory of all the revolutions of states and kingdoms, believing that they are all according to his counsel and that he will make them all to work for the good of his church. To the chief musician, Al-taschith. A psalm or song of Asaph.
Open source ↗75:2-8 The Lord will bring justice in his own time.
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I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”
Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.
Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.
You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor— the appointed time has come.
So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the LORD. And they anointed him king over Israel.
I will ponder the way that is blameless— when will You come to me? I will walk in my house with integrity of heart.
Then the men of Judah came to Hebron, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah. And they told David, “It was the men of Jabesh-gilead who buried Saul.”
Thus David reigned over all Israel and administered justice and righteousness for all his people: