Psalms 75:1
We give thanks to thee, O God. We give thanks, for thy name is near. Men tell of thy wondrous works.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly;
Cross References
Exodus 23:21Take ye heed before him, and hearken to his voice, provoke him not. For he will not pardon your transgression, for my name is in him.
Deuteronomy 4:7For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as LORD our God is whenever we call upon him?
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou did in their days, in the days of old.
Psalms 57:1Be merciful to me, O God, be merciful to me, for my soul takes refuge in thee. Yea, in the shadow of thy wings I will take refuge until calamities be passed by.
Psalms 76:1In Judah God is known. His name is great in Israel.
Psalms 145:18LORD is near to all those who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 75:1
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-laureate (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… Read the whole commentary →