Psalms 76:9 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁹When God arose to judgment, to save all the meek of the earth. Selah.

Psalms 76:9 —

Old words in this verse

selah: — a pause or musical mark (meaning uncertain).

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Zephaniah 2:3
Seek ye the LORD, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the LORD'S anger.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Psalms 9:7-9
But the LORD shall endure for ever: he hath prepared his throne for judgment. …
Isaiah 11:4
But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
Jeremiah 5:28
They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 7-12)

This glorious victory with which God had graced and blessed his church is here made to speak three things:— I. Terror to God’s enemies (Ps. 76:7-9): “ Thou, even thou, art to be feared; thy majesty is to be reverenced, thy sovereignty to be submitted to, and thy justice to be dreaded by those that have offended thee.” Let all the world learn by this event to stand in awe of the great God. 1. Let a…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 9)

8-9. God’s judgment on the wicked is His people’s deliverance (Psa 9:12; 10:7).