73:11. Why dost thou turn away thy hand: and thy right hand out of the midst of thy bosom for ever? 73:12. But God is our king before ages: he hath wrought salvation in the midst of the earth. 73:13. Thou by thy strength didst make the sea firm: thou didst crush the heads of the dragons in the waters. The sea firm. . .By making the waters of the Red Sea stand like firm walls, whilst Israel passed through: and destroying the Egyptians called here dragons from their cruelty, in the same waters, with their king: casting up their bodies on the shore to be stripped by the Ethiopians inhabiting in those days the coast of Arabia. 73:14. Thou hast broken the heads of the dragon: thou hast given him to be meat for the people of the Ethiopians. 73:15. Thou hast broken up the fountains and the torrents: thou hast dried up the Ethan rivers. Ethan rivers. . .That is, rivers which run with strong streams. This was verified in Jordan, Jos. 3, and in Arnon, Num. 21.14. 73:16. Thine is the day, and thine is the night: thou hast made the morning light and the sun. 73:17. Thou hast made all the borders of the earth: the summer and the spring were formed by thee. 73:18. Remember this, the enemy hath reproached the Lord: and a foolish people hath provoked thy name. 73:19. Deliver not up to beasts the souls that confess to thee: and forget not to the end the souls of thy poor. 73:20. Have regard to thy covenant: for they that are the obscure of the earth have been filled with dwellings of iniquity. The obscure of the earth. . .Mean and ignoble wretches have been filled, that is, enriched, with houses of iniquity, that is, with our estates and possessions, which they have unjustly acquired. 73:21. Let not the humble be turned away with confusion: the poor and needy shall praise thy name. 73:22. Arise, O God, judge thy own cause: remember thy reproaches with which the foolish man hath reproached thee all the day. 73:23. Forget not the voices of thy enemies: the pride of them that hate thee ascendeth continually. Psalms Chapter 74 Confitebimur tibi. There is a just judgment to come: therefore let the wicked take care. 74:1. Unto the end, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph. Corrupt not. . .It is believed to have been the beginning of some ode or hymn, to the tune of which this psalm was to be sung. St. Augustine and other fathers take it to be an admonition of the spirit of God, not to faint or fail in our hope: but to persevere with constancy in good: because God will not fail in his due time to render to every man according to his works. 74:2. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works: 74:3. When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.