| Geneva Study Bible {c} When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. (c) When I see my time (says God) to help your miseries, I will come and set all things in good order. Wesley's Notes 75:2 Receive - The whole congregation, all the tribes. King James Translators' Notes receive...: or, take a set time Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 2, 3. These verses express the purpose of God to administer a just government, and in a time of anarchy that He sustains the nation. Some apply the words to the Psalmist. receive the congregation-literally, "take a set time" (Ps 102:13; Ho 2:3), or an assembly at a set time-that is, for judging. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 75:1-5 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. | 
