Psalms 75:1
Unto you, O God, do we give thanks, unto you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
Cross References
Exodus 23:21Beware of him, and obey his voice, provoke him not; for he will not pardon your transgressions: for my name is in him.
Deuteronomy 4:7For what nation is there so great, who has God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?
Psalms 44:1We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the times of old.
Psalms 57:1Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusts in you: yea, in the shadow of your wings will I make my refuge, until these calamities pass over.
Psalms 76:1In Judah is God known: his name is great in Israel.
Psalms 145:18The LORD is nigh unto all them that call upon him, to all that 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 →