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John Gill
INTRODUCTION TO Psalms 75 To the chief Musician, Altaschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. Of the word "altaschith", [See comments on Psalms 57:1], it signifies "do not destroy", or "do not corrupt"; the Targum renders it, "do not destroy thy people;'' so Jarchi, "do not destroy Israel;'' perhaps it may be considered as a petition, that God would not suffer the man of sin to go on to destroy the...
John Gill
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. It is not from men, from themselves, or others, or from any quarter under the heavens, but from God; it is he that raises men to high places, and sets them there, which are often slippery ones: by him kings reign; they have their crowns and sceptres, thrones and kingdoms from him; there is no power but what is of...
Matthew Henry
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...