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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 in the hand of the Lord there is a cup,.... Another reason why men should not act haughtily and arrogantly; for by the cup are meant afflictions, calamities, and judgments, which are measured out in proportion to men's sins, and are of God's appointing, and in his hands, and at his disposal and the wine is red; an emblem of the wrath of God this cup is full of, as it is explained, Revelation...
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...