Passage Research
Psalm 75 — Sermon Preparation
Asaph praises God who judges at the appointed time, cutting down the arrogant and lifting up the righteous — judgment comes from God alone, not from any earthly direction. Below is a research summary for Psalm 75, drawn from openly licensed scholarly databases — original-language morphology, classic sermons from the church fathers through the Puritans, and ancient geography data.
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- verses
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- classic sermon excerpts
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- preachers & commentators
Psalm 75 in the Hebrew
Distinctive vocabulary of this chapter, based on original-language morphology.
| Hebrew | Transliteration | Strong's | Count | Glosses |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| רוּם | rûwm | H7311 | 5 | be high, rise |
| קֶרֶן | qeren | H7161 | 4 | horn, flask |
| רָשָׁע | râshâʻ | H7563 | 3 | wrong, bad |
| יָדָה | yâdâh | H3034 | 2 | throw, revere |
| הָלַל | hâlal | H1984 | 2 | be clear, shine |
| שָׁפַט | shâphaṭ | H8199 | 2 | judge, sentence |
| מֶסֶךְ | meçek | H4538 | 1 | mixture |
How preachers through history handled this text
5 public-domain excerpts on Psalm 75, from the church fathers to the Puritans.
“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 spreading of it among the people), or …”
— Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible, Vol. 3 (Job to Song of Solomon), on Psalm 75:1–30 (Public Domain)
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