But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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(75-10) But as for me, I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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Passages linked to Psalms 75:9 in the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, ordered by reader-vote popularity; verse text shown in World English Bible.
- Psalms 9:14 that I may show all of your praise. I will rejoice in your salvation in the gates of the daughter of Zion.
- Psalms 40:10 I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
- Psalms 104:33 I will sing to Yahweh as long as I live. I will sing praise to my God while I have any being.
- Psalms 145:1-2 I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. Every day I will praise you. I will extol your name forever and ever.
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John Calvin 1540 · Public Domain 9. and 10. But I will publish for ever.…
9. and 10. But I will publish for ever. This conclusion of the psalm evinces the joy which God’s people felt from having experienced that He was their deliverer in adversity; for it seems to be their own experience which they engage to publish, and on account of which they resolve to sing praise to God. Whence also they gather, that by the divine aid they will overcome all the power of the reprobate; and that being themselves possessed of righteousness and equity, they will be sufficiently armed for their own preservation and defense. The expression, the horns of the righteous shall be exalted, implies, that the children of God, by a blameless and holy life, acquire greater strength, and more effectually protect themselves than if it were their endeavor to advance their own interests by every species of wickedness.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain Psa 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I…
Psa 75:9 But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
Ver. 9. But I will declare for ever] viz. God’s great goodness in mine advancement to the kingdom, and the rest of those wonderful works, Psa 75:1.
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I will sing praises, &c.] This thankful man was worth his weight in the gold of Ophir.
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Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain Declare, to wit, this great and glorious work of…
Declare, to wit, this great and glorious work of God, or the praises due unto God for it, as the next words imply.
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John Gill 1763 · Public Domain But I will declare for ever,.... These are not…
But I will declare for ever,.... These are not the words of the psalmist, but of Christ, who is all along speaking in the psalm; what he would declare is not expressed, and is to be supplied in sense thus; either that he would declare the wonderful works of God, Psa 75:1, so the Targum, his thoughts, mercies, and kindnesses to his people, as in Psa 55:5, or his judgments on his enemies, whom he shall pass sentence on, which will be for ever; or the name of the Lord, his purposes and decrees, his counsel and covenant, his mind and will, his Gospel and the truth of it: see Psa 22:22,
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob; the covenant God of his people, Christ's God, and their God; of his singing praise to him, see Psa 22:22.
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain Declare - The praises of God.
Declare - The praises of God.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain Verse 9. I will sing praises to the God…
Verse 9. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.] These are the words of the psalmist, who magnifies the Lord for the promise of deliverance from their enemies.
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Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain Psa 75:9-10. But I will declare for ever —…
Psa 75:9-10. But I will declare for ever — These dispensations of mercy and judgment to the world. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob — He will praise God, and give him glory for the power to which he had advanced him, and that not only at first, while the mercy was fresh, but for ever; as long as he lives he will remember, and be grateful for, this instance of the Lord’s goodness. Thus the exaltation of the Son of David will be the subject of the saints’ everlasting praises. And he will give glory to God, not only as his God, but as the God of Jacob, knowing it was for his servant Jacob’s sake, and because he loved his people Israel, that he made him king over them. All the horns of the wicked — Their honour and power, which they made instruments of mischief to oppress good men; a metaphor taken from horned and mischievous beasts; will I cut off — I will humble their pride and break their power; I will disable them to do mischief. But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted — Good men shall be encouraged and promoted, and intrusted with the management of all public affairs, which will be a great blessing to all my people. Thus he determines to use the power wherewith he was intrusted for the great ends for which it was put into his hands, as every governor ought to do, and as every good governor will do. And herein David was a type of Christ, who, with the breath of his lips, slays the wicked, Isa 11:4; but exalts with honour the horn of the righteous, Psa 112:9.
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Albert Barnes 1834 · Public Domain But I will declare for ever - I -…
But I will declare for ever - I - the author of the psalm. I will make known at all times the character of God, and will declare the truth respecting his works and ways. The particular mode as referred to here, was praise.
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob - The God whom Jacob worshipped; the God who proved himself to be his Friend, thus showing that he is the Friend of all that trust in him. See the notes at Psa 24:6.
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Daniel D. Whedon 1874 · Public Domain 9. I will declare—I will make public; it shall…
9. I will declare—I will make public; it shall be the prominent fact of my reign and the confession of my lips.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain 9. But as for me, I will declare for…
9. But as for me, I will declare for ever. It is easy to supply ‘thy wondrous works.’ But the LXX reads (with change of one letter) I will rejoice, which may be right. Cp. Psa_9:14; Isa_29:19.
For ever may mean ‘while life lasts’ (1Sa_1:22): or is he speaking as the representative of the immortal people?
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9, 10. The vow of praise and the assurance of triumph.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain But I will declare forever; i.e. "I will declare…
But I will declare forever; i.e. "I will declare these things viz. God"s just judgments upon the wicked. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. On the force of the phrase, "God of Jacob," see the comment upon Psa_20:1.
"The God of Jacob.
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It is a singular and suggestive thing that God is not thought of by Hezekiah here as the God of Abraham, but as the God of Jacob. The revelations God makes to men are, partly, general to all men, suitable to man as man; and, partly, special to individuals, precisely adapted to the circumstances and necessities of particular persons. We may therefore profitably study what God was to Abraham, what to Isaac, what to Jacob. And if we can see these three cases to be, in a comprehensive sense, typical cases, we shall have a general sense of God"s relations with men when we call him "the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." But the life of Abraham presented no particular likeness to the circumstances of Hezekiah. To Abraham God was the gracious Guide, the near Friend. To Jacob"s troubled, anxious life the king turned, and found similar experiences to his own. God"s ways with Jacob were those of the Redeemer and Deliverer. This probably was more especially in the mind of Hezekiah. Jacob was a man grievously wronged wronged by Laban, and fearing wrong at the hands of Esau. And God had stood by the wronged man, saw him through, and saw him righted. That came as a Divine comforting to Hezekiah. He too was wronged; he too was misunderstood; be too was in peril But the God of Jacob was his God. The "God of Jacob" is God the Judge. This may be shown to include three things.
I GOD IS THE ESTIMATOR OF CHARACTER. It is plain that a man"s character can never be safely estimated by a consideration of his circumstances. Job"s could not. Jacob"s could not. David"s could not. Try to read Hezekiah"s character in those times of strain and stress. Ask Shebna"s party their opinion of the king. It is full of comforting to us that we can be sure God is not deceived by circumstances, but knows us altogether. We may be absolutely content with the Divine appraisement. Read Jacob"s life in man"s light, then try to read it in God"s light.
II GOD IS THE VINDICATOR OF THE GOOD. This is absolutely and entirely true of every good man, in what is called the "long run." As in Jacob"s case, Job"s case, and David"s case, the vindication may be delayed for purposes of Divine training and sanctifying. God never has finally left his faithful servants unvindicated. His witness rested on Hezekiah: the Divine deliverance from Sennacherib proved a Divine witness on behalf of the faithful king.
III GOD IS THE PUNISHER OF THE WICKED. And the severest punishment to them is the humbling failure of their seemingly well devised schemes. R.T.
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Charles H. Spurgeon 1885 · Public Domain Ver. 9. But I will declare for ever. Thus…
Ver. 9. But I will declare for ever. Thus will the saints occupy themselves with rehearsing Jehovah's praises, while their foes are drunken with the wine of wrath. They shall chant while the others roar in anguish, and justly so, for the former Psalm informed us that such had been the case on earth, --"thine enemies roar in the sanctuary, " --the place where the chosen praised the Lord.
I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. The covenant God, who delivered Jacob from a thousand afflictions, our soul shall magnify. He has kept his covenant which he made with the patriarch, and has redeemed his seed, therefore will we spread abroad his fame world without end.
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Ver. 9. Our life work: to declare and to sing.
Psalms 75:10*
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The Biblical Illustrator 1887 · Public Domain But I will declare for ever; I will sing…
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But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
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A model of devout praise
The praise resolved upon here is worthy of our imitation, inasmuch as it--
I. Loses sight of self in devout admiration of the character and doings of God.
1. He will praise God for His doings.
(1) Undeserved by us. While we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.
(2) Unsought by us. We did not seek God, but He sought us by Jesus Christ.
(3) Freely and heartily given by God out of His own sovereign love. Bless the Lord, O my soul.
2. He will praise God for His faithfulness. With Him there is no variableness, neither shadow of turning.
3. He will praise God for ever. Let not thy praises be transient--a fit of music, and then the instrument hung by the wall till another gaudy day of some remarkable providence makes thee take it down. God comes not guest-wise to His saints house, but to dwell with them. David took this up for a life-work: As long as I live, I will praise Thee.
II. Evinces its reality by resolving to imitate him. Our praise of the excellences of others is a very hollow affair unless we also cultivate those excellences. We praise God for His unspeakable gift; are we imitating His pure generosity? We praise Jesus Christ for His great self-sacrifice for us; are we denying ourselves in His spirit that others might be benefited? We bless God for the Gospel; are we exemplifying the spirit of the Gospel? A certain Dr. Whitaker, on reading the fifth chapter of Matthew, brake out, saying, Either this is not the Gospel, or we are not of the Gospel. And is it not to be feared that the spirit of the Gospel for which men praise God, and the spirit of their lives, are often widely different? Let us evince the sincerity of our praise to God by imitating Him in our spirit and life. Let us admire Him, commune with Him, adore Him, until we are transformed into the same image. (W. Jones.)
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Psa_76:1-12
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 He says
He says
God says
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cut off all the horns of
The horns of an animal are a metaphor for the power of a person. AT: "take away all power from" (See: Metaphor)
the horns of the righteous will be raised up
The horns of an animal are a metaphor for the power of a person. This can be translated as a statement in active form. AT: "I will raise up the horns of the righteous" or "I will make the righteous powerful" (See: Metaphor and Active or Passive)
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praise
Jacob
cut off
horn
righteous
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