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Psalm 75:3
The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
1For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
2When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
4I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
5Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
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The earth quakes with everyone on it, yet God speaks of holding its pillars, confronting the fear that everything dependable could give way.
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Colossians 1:17He is before all things, and in him all things are held together.Both passages speak of divine sustaining power: God holds the earth’s pillars, and in Christ all things are held together.
1 Samuel 2:8He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill to make them sit with princes and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars …Both use the earth’s pillars to describe its dependence on God, who owns them and holds them firm.
Psalm 11:3If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?Both picture threatened stability through foundations or pillars; Psalm 11 asks about destruction, while Psalm 75 declares God’s support.
Job 9:6He shakes the earth out of its place. Its pillars tremble.Both describe the earth and its pillars under God’s power, though Job speaks of shaking and the psalm of holding.
Hebrews 1:3His Son is the radiance of his glory, the very image of his substance, and upholding all things by the word of his power, who, when he had by himself purified …God’s holding of the earth’s pillars shares the theme of divine support with the Son’s upholding of all things.
Isaiah 24:19The earth is utterly broken. The earth is torn apart. The earth is shaken violently.Both portray the earth shaking, though Isaiah emphasizes its breaking and Psalm 75 also declares God’s sustaining hold.
Isaiah 49:8The LORD says, “I have answered you in an acceptable time. I have helped you in a day of salvation. I will preserve you and give you for a covenant of the …The shared thread is God’s preserving work, expressed through holding the earth’s pillars and promising preservation and restoration of the land.
Psalm 82:5They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.Both portray instability reaching the earth’s foundations, with Psalm 75 adding God’s declaration that he holds its pillars.
Psalm 93:1The LORD reigns! He is clothed with majesty! The LORD is armed with strength. The world also is established. It can’t be moved.Both connect the world’s stability to God’s power: he holds its pillars and establishes the world under his reign.
Matthew 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am …There is no clear shared image: Matthew records Jesus speaking about his cup and baptism, while the psalm describes God holding the earth.
2 Peter 3:11Therefore, since all these things will be destroyed like this, what kind of people ought you to be in holy living and godliness,Both describe upheaval affecting the created world, though Peter speaks of destruction and the psalm of quaking under God’s sustaining power.
Isaiah 51:16I have put my words in your mouth and have covered you in the shadow of my hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay the foundations of the earth, and tell …Both describe the earth’s foundations as God’s concern: he lays them in Isaiah and holds its pillars in the psalm.
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The quaking is real within the poem. God’s claim stands amid it: even when the earth and its people shake, its pillars remain in his hands.
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