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Psalm 75

Psa. 75:3 KJV (With Strong’s)

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The earth
'erets (Hebrew #776)
the earth (at large, or partitively a land)
KJV usage: X common, country, earth, field, ground, land, X natins, way, + wilderness, world.
Pronounce: eh'-rets
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be firm
and all the inhabitants
yashab (Hebrew #3427)
properly, to sit down (specifically as judge. in ambush, in quiet); by implication, to dwell, to remain; causatively, to settle, to marry
KJV usage: (make to) abide(-ing), continue, (cause to, make to) dwell(-ing), ease self, endure, establish, X fail, habitation, haunt, (make to) inhabit(-ant), make to keep (house), lurking, X marry(-ing), (bring again to) place, remain, return, seat, set(- tle), (down-)sit(-down, still, -ting down, -ting (place) -uate), take, tarry.
Pronounce: yaw-shab'
Origin: a primitive root
thereof are dissolved
muwg (Hebrew #4127)
to melt, i.e. literally (to soften, flow down, disappear), or figuratively (to fear, faint)
KJV usage: consume, dissolve, (be) faint(-hearted), melt (away), make soft.
Pronounce: moog
Origin: a primitive root
: I bear up
takan (Hebrew #8505)
to balance, i.e. measure out (by weight or dimension); figuratively, arrange, equalize, through the idea of levelling (ment. estimate, test)
KJV usage: bear up, direct, be ((un-))equal, mete, ponder, tell, weigh.
Pronounce: taw-kan'
Origin: a primitive root
the pillars
`ammuwd (Hebrew #5982)
from 5975; a column (as standing); also a stand, i.e. platform
KJV usage: X apiece, pillar.
Pronounce: am-mood'
Origin: or ammud {am-mood'}
of it. Selah
celah (Hebrew #5542)
suspension (of music), i.e. pause
KJV usage: Selah.
Pronounce: seh'-law
Origin: from 5541
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Ministry on This Verse

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Psa. 60:1‑3• 1To the chief musician, on Shushan of testimony; Michtam of David to teach ; when he strove with Syria of Mesopotamia, and Syria of Zobah, and Joab returned and smote Edom in the valley of salt, twelve thousand.{HR}O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast rent us,{HR}Thou hast been angry; turn again to us.
 2Thou hast made the earth to tremble,{HR}Thou hast rent it; heal its breaches, for it shaketh.
 3Thou hast shown thy people hard things,{HR}Thou hast made us drink the wine of reeling. (Psa. 60:1‑3)
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Psa. 78:60‑72• 60And he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh,{HR}His tent he pitched among men,
 61And gave his strength into captivity,{HR}And his beauty into the oppressor's hand.
 62And he gave over to the sword his people,{HR}And was wroth with his inheritance.
 63The fire consumed their chosen,{HR}And their maidens were not praised in song;
 64Their priests fell by the sword,{HR}And their widows wept not.
 65And the Lord awoke as a sleeper,{HR}As a mighty man shouting aloud from wine;
 66And he smote his adversaries backward{HR}And put them to everlasting reproach.
 67And he rejected the tent of Joseph,{HR}And the tribe of Ephraim did not choose;
 68And he chose the tribe of Judah,{HR}The mount Zion which he loved.
 69And he built his sanctuary like high [places],{HR}Like the earth he founded forever.
 70And he chose David his servant,{HR}And took him from the sheepfold;
 71From behind suckling [ewes] he brought him{HR}To feed Jacob his people and Israel his inheritance.
 72And he fed them according to the integrity of his heart,{HR}And in the skill of his hands he led them. (Psa. 78:60‑72)
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1 Sam. 31:1‑7• 1And the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain on mount Gilboa.
 2And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Melchishua, Saul's sons.
 3And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
 4Then said Saul unto his armour-bearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
 5And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
 6So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
 7And when the men of Israel that were on this side of the valley, and they that were on this side of the Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them. (1 Sam. 31:1‑7)
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Isa. 24:1‑12• 1Behold, Jehovah maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad its inhabitants.
 2And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.
 3The land shall be utterly emptied and utterly spoiled: for Jehovah hath spoken this word.
 4The earth mourneth, it fadeth away: the world languisheth, it fadeth away; the haughty people of the earth do languish,
 5The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof, for they have transgressed the laws, changed the statute, broken the everlasting covenant.
 6Therefore doth the curse devour the earth, and they that dwell therein are desolate; therefore the inhabitants of the earth are burned, and few men left.
 7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry hearted do sigh.
 8The mirth of tambours ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.
 9They do not drink wine with a song; strong drink is bitter to them that drink it.
 10The city of solitude is broken down; every house is shut up, that no man entereth in.
 11[There is] a crying for wine in the streets; all joy is darkened, the mirth of the land is gone.
 12In the city remaineth desolation, and the gate is smitten,—a ruin. (Isa. 24:1‑12)
I bear.
1 Sam. 18:7• 7And the women answered one another as they played, and said,{HR}Saul hath slain his thousands,{HR}and David his ten thousands. (1 Sam. 18:7)
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1 Sam. 25:28• 28I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for Jehovah will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of Jehovah, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days. (1 Sam. 25:28)
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2 Sam. 5:2• 2Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and Jehovah said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel. (2 Sam. 5:2)
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Isa. 49:8• 8Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the land, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages; (Isa. 49:8)
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Heb. 1:3• 3who being effulgence of his glory and expression of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, having made [by himself] purification of our sins sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high, (Heb. 1:3)
pillars.
1 Sam. 2:8• 8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,{HR}And lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill,{HR}To set them among princes,{HR}And to make them inherit the throne of glory:{HR}For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's,{HR}And He hath set the world upon them. (1 Sam. 2:8)
• When Christ takes the kingdom, all is confusion, the earth and its pillars are dissolved. (“Practical Reflections on the Psalms: Psalms 64-77” by J.N. Darby)
• The social fabric will be broken up (see Isa. 24:19-20); but even so God has established its pillars. God maintains the earth, though the world system formed by man is broken up. (“Psalm 75” by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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The earthb and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have established its pillars. Selah.

JND Translation Notes

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Or "land," as 1 Sam. 2.8. so ver. 8.

W. Kelly Translation

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The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved:{HR}I have established its pillars. Selah.