What does Psalms Chapter 75 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Atlas of Saints · Chapter summary

The Latin incipit is Notus in Judaea. The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct. Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

Chapter breakdown

The Latin incipit is Notus in Judaea. The separate heading describes protection of God's church and alludes to Assyrians' slaughter under Ezechias. The inscription is unto the end, in praises, for Asaph, a canticle to Assyrians. God is known in Judea, His name great in Israel, His place in peace and abode in Sion, where powers of bows, shield, sword and battle were broken.

He enlightens wonderfully from everlasting hills. Foolish hearts were troubled and slept; rich men found nothing in their hands. Horse-mounters slumbered at Jacob's God's rebuke, without added chariots, paralysis or an instantaneous siege collapse. The speaker asks who resists the terrible God from His wrath's time; the note explains when wrath shall break out.

Judgment was heard from heaven and earth trembled and was still when God arose to save earth's meek. Man's thought shall praise and its remainders keep holiday; thought is not changed to wrath or surviving witnesses. Those around God are told to vow, pay and bring presents to Him who takes princes' spirit and is terrible with kings. The heading's allusion is not expanded into a witnessed military operation outside Jerusalem.

The story inside

Opening: The Latin incipit is Notus in Judaea. Development: The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct. Conclusion: Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

Lessons worth keeping

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The Latin incipit is Notus in Judaea.
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The speaker’s recollections, requests and future declarations remain distinct.
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Edition explanations remain attributed; practical case details and universal guarantees are not invented.

Test your recall

Which images and requests does the speaker use, and what does the chapter leave unresolved?

Source edition and notes

Douay–Rheims, revised by Richard Challoner (1749–1752). Project Gutenberg no. 1581. Locators refer to lines in the admitted pg1581.txt edition. Source notes may include Challoner commentary.

Lines 62379–62381
God is known in his church: and exerts his power in protecting it. It alludes to the slaughter of the Assyrians, in the days of king Ezechias.
Lines 62390–62391
75:4. There hath he broken the powers of bows, the shield, the sword, and the battle.
Lines 62395–62396
75:6. All the foolish of heart were troubled. They have slept their sleep; and all the men of riches have found nothing in their hands.
Lines 62398–62399
75:7. At thy rebuke, O God of Jacob, they have all slumbered that mounted on horseback.
Lines 62404–62404
From that time, etc.... From the time that thy wrath shall break out.
Lines 62406–62409
75:9. Thou hast caused judgment to be heard from heaven: the earth trembled and was still, 75:10. When God arose in judgment, to save all the meek of the earth.
Lines 62417–62418
75:13. Even to him who taketh away the spirit of princes: to the terrible with the kings of the earth.