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<p align="center">Commentary by A. R. FAUSSET<br>PSALM 76 <a id="Chapter76"></a>
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<p id="Ps76_1"><a onclick="return mV('Psa',76,'1-12');">Psa 76:1-12</a>.
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<p><i>On Neginoth</i>—(See on JFB for <a href="./Comm/jfb/Psa/Psa004.html#Ps4_1">Psa 4:1</a>, title). This Psalm commemorates what the preceding anticipates: God's deliverance of His people by a signal interposition of power against their enemies. The occasion was probably the events narrated in <a onclick="return mV('2Ki',19,35);">2Ki 19:35</a>; <a href= "#" onclick="return mV('Isa',37,'1-28');">Isa 37:1-28</a>. (Compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',46,'1-11');">Psa 46:1-11</a>).
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<p><b>1, 2.</b> These well-known terms denote God's people and Church and His intimate and glorious relations to them.
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<p id="Ps76_2"><b>2. Salem</b>— (<a onclick="return mV('Gen',14,18);">Gen 14:18</a>) is Jerusalem.
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<p id="Ps76_3"><b>3. brake...the arrows</b>—literally, "thunderbolts" (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',78,48);">Psa 78:48</a>), from their rapid flight or ignition (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',18,14);">Psa 18:14</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eph',6,16);">Eph 6:16</a>).
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<br><br><b>the battle</b>—for arms (<a onclick="return mV('Hsa',2,18);">Hsa 2:18</a>).
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<p id="Ps76_4"><b>4. Thou</b>—God.
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<br><br><b>mountains of prey</b>—great victorious nations, as Assyria (<a onclick="return mV('Isa',41,15);">Isa 41:15</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Eze',38,11,12);">Eze 38:11-12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Zec',4,7);">Zec 4:7</a>).
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<p id="Ps76_5"><b>5. slept their sleep</b>—died (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',13,3);">Psa 13:3</a>).
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<br><br><b>none...found...hands</b>—are powerless.
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<p id="Ps76_6"><b>6. chariot and horse</b>—for those fighting on them (compare <a onclick="return mV('Psa',68,17);">Psa 68:17</a>).
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<p id="Ps76_7"><b>7. may...sight</b>—contend with Thee (<a onclick="return mV('Deu',9,4);">Deu 9:4</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Jos',7,12);">Jos 7:12</a>).
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<p id="Ps76_8"><b>8, 9.</b> God's judgment on the wicked is His people's deliverance (<a onclick="return mV('Psa',9,12);">Psa 9:12</a>; <a onclick="return mV('Psa',10,7);">10:7</a>).
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<p id="Ps76_10"><b>10.</b> Man's wrath praises God by its futility before His power.
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<br><br><b>restrain</b>—or, "gird"; that is, Thyself, as with a sword, with which to destroy, or as an ornament to Thy praise.
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<p id="Ps76_11"><b>11, 12.</b> Invite homage to such a God (<a href= "#" onclick="return mV('2Ch',32,23);">2Ch 32:23</a>), who can stop the breath of kings and princes when He wills (<a onclick="return mV('Dan',5,23);">Dan 5:23</a>).
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