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**To the chief Musician.** See App-64 .
**upon Gittith** = relating to the (Art.) wine-press, or the autumn Festival of Tabernacles; or to the vine and the vineyard, which are the subjects of the Psalm. See App-65 .
**Title. of Asaph.** The tenth of the twelve Asaph Psalms. App-63 . Relating to the worship of the Sanctuary.
**God.** Hebrew. *Elohim.* App-4 .
**Jacob.** See [Psalms 75:9](../../../kjv/psalms/75/9) .

**Take a psalm.** = Raise a song.
**timbrel.** Hebrew. *toph.* See note on [Exodus 15:20](../../../kjv/exodus/15/20) .
**psaltery** = lute.

**trumpet.** Hebrew. *shophar.* See note on [Numbers 10:2](../../../kjv/numbers/10/2) .
**day.** Some codices, with two early printed editions, Aramaean, and Syriac, read "days" (plural): i.e. festivals.

**This.** No Hebrew for "This".
**He:** i.e. God.
**out** = forth.
**through** = before: i.e. in the sight of. Compare [Numbers 33:3](../../../kjv/numbers/33/3) .
**I** = I [Israel].

**I** = I [God].
**pots** = baskets. Depicted in Egyptian paintings as being used in brickmaking. Not same word as [Psalms 68:13](../../../kjv/psalms/68/13) , though the same things referred to. Compare [2 Kings 10:7](../../../kjv/2-kings/10/7) .

**in** , or from.
**proved.** Compare [Exodus 17:6](../../../kjv/exodus/17/6) . [Numbers 20:1-13](../../../kjv/numbers/20/1-13) .
**Selah.** Connecting the merciful deliverance with the reason why Israel should hearken. See App-66 .

**strange** = foreign, or foreigner *'* s.
**strange god** = god of the foreigner. Not the same as above. For the former, See [Psalms 44:20](../../../kjv/psalms/44/20) . [Isaiah 43:12](../../../kjv/isaiah/43/12) ; for the latter, [Deuteronomy 32:12](../../../kjv/deuteronomy/32/12) .
**god.** Hebrew. *'el* . App-4 .

**the LORD thy God.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* thy Elohim. App-4 . The title of the Lawgiver.

**would none of Me** = had no mind for Me.

**gave them up** = let him (Israel) go on. The greatest judgment God could have given them; or give us.
**lust** = stubbornness.

**Oh . . . !** Figure of speech *Eonismos.* .
**walked.** Plural.

**soon.** See note on "almost", [Proverbs 5:14](../../../kjv/proverbs/5/14) .

**haters of the LORD:** i.e. Israel *'* s enemies.
**the LORD.** Hebrew. *Jehovah.* App-4 .

**should I have satisfied thee.** Some codices read "would I satisfy him". Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate, read "would He satisfy him".

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