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Psalm 76 Bible study: In Judah, God is known
Two of the psalm's words for where God dwells (Psalm 76:2) are words other verses use of a lion's lair, and Deuteronomy 33:27 uses one of them of God himself. The valiant men "slept their last sleep" (Psalm 76:5) with the verb of Psalm 121:4, where the one who keeps Israel never slumbers. And God arose to judgment "to save all the afflicted ones of the earth" (Psalm 76:9).
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“You pronounced judgment from heaven. The earth feared, and was silent, when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth. Selah.”
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“In Psalm 76, God arose to judgment to save all the afflicted ones of the earth.”
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Known, and then what he did there
The title reads, "For the Chief Musician. On stringed instruments. A Psalm by Asaph. A song" (76:1). Then the psalm opens: "In Judah, God is known. His name is great in Israel" (76:1). It says where he dwells: "His tabernacle is also in Salem. His dwelling place in Zion" (76:2) (tap Salem, tabernacle, dwelling place). The next verse begins with There: "There he broke the flaming arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the weapons of war" (76:3). The psalm says God is known, and then tells what he did. Psalm 46 says something like it with some of the same Hebrew words: "He makes wars cease to the end of the earth. He breaks the bow, and shatters the spear" (Psalm 46:9). Its breaks is shavar, the word of Psalm 76:3's broke; its bow is qeshet, the word of Psalm 76:3's bow; and its wars is milchamah, the one Hebrew word the WEB gives in Psalm 76:3 as the weapons of war.
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- A dwelling, in words used of a lair
- Feared, four times
- At your rebuke
- Make vows, and fulfill them
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- 13 more Hebrew words
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The Hebrew word behind it
יָרֵאyare'say ya-RE
Brown-Driver-Briggs: "fear", and in the stem used in 76:7 and 76:12, "be fearful, dreadful". Strong's: "to fear; morally to revere". The psalm says God is feared four times. Three are this verb: "You, even you, are to be feared" (76:7), "The earth feared, and was silent" (76:8), and "He is feared by the kings of the earth" (76:12). The fourth, "to him who is to be feared" (76:11), is mora, a noun Strong's gives as from this verb (tap feared in 76:11). The earth feared "when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth" (76:9).
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Psalm 76 Bible study questions
- 1"In Judah, God is known" (76:1), and the psalm goes on to tell what he did. What has God done that you know him by?
- 2"You, even you, are to be feared" (76:7), and the earth feared "when God arose to judgment, to save all the afflicted ones of the earth" (76:9). How does that change what it means to you to fear God?
- 3"Make vows to the LORD your God, and fulfill them!" (76:11). Is there something you have promised God that you want to keep?
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