Justice of the Lord

Psa 75:1-10
(1) To the choirmaster: according to Do Not Destroy. A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.

We give thanks to you, O God; we give thanks, for your name is near. We recount your wondrous deeds.
(2) "At the set time that I appoint I will judge with equity.
(3) When the earth totters, and all its inhabitants, it is I who keep steady its pillars. Selah.
(4) I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horn;
(5) do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.'"
(6) For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,
(7) but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
(8) For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup with foaming wine, well mixed, and he pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth shall drain it down to the dregs.
(9) But I will declare it forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
(10) All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.

I like this psalm a lot. If you want to read a simple commentary to it, go there. I think i will have to put it on my mind while preparing my English lessons :).

This is what Matthew Henry wrote about this psalm:

He rebukes the wicked, and concludes with resolutions to praise God.

We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to be managed uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be wise. To the proud, daring sinners he says, Boast not of your power, persist not in contempt. All the present hopes and future happiness of the human race spring from the Son of God. (1-5)

No second causes will raise men to preferment without the First Cause. It comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. He mentions not the north; the same word that signifies the north, signifies the secret place; and from the secret of God's counsel it does come. From God alone all must receive their doom. There are mixtures of mercy and grace in the cup of affliction, when it is put into the hands of God's people; mixtures of the curse, when it is put into the hands of the wicked. God's people have their share in common calamities, but the dregs of the cup are for the wicked. The exaltation of the Son of David will be the subject of the saints' everlasting praises. Then let sinners submit to the King of righteousness, and let believers rejoice in and obey him. (6-10)