Psalms 75 – Promotion Cometh Neither From the East
A reminder that God alone raises up and puts down.
This chapter of the Psalms overview answers the lament of Psalms 74 with confident thanksgiving, declaring that God alone decides who is put down and who is set up, since promotion comes from Him and not from any direction on earth.
The title of the fyue and seuentithe salm. To the victorie in orguns, `the salm of the song of Asaph.
God is knowun in Judee; his name is greet in Israel.
And his place is maad in pees; and his dwellyng is in Syon.
Ther he brak poweris; bowe, scheeld, swerd, and batel.
And thou, God, liytnest wondirfuli fro euerlastynge hillis;
alle vnwise men of herte weren troblid. Thei slepten her sleep; and alle men founden no thing of richessis in her hondis.
Thei that stieden on horsis; slepten for thi blamyng, thou God of Jacob.
Thou art feerful, and who schal ayenstonde thee? fro that tyme thin ire.
Fro heuene thou madist doom herd; the erthe tremblide, and restide.
Whanne God roos vp in to doom; to make saaf al the mylde men of erthe.
For the thouyt of man schal knouleche to thee; and the relifs of thouyt schulen make a feeste dai to thee.
Make ye a vow, and yelde ye to youre Lord God; alle that bringen yiftis in the cumpas of it.
To God ferdful, and to him that takith awei the spirit of prynces; to the ferdful at the kyngis of erthe.