HTML edition for divineprinciplebible.com, continuing Psalms with chapters 71 through 75. Commentary is included only where the passages are especially significant for lifelong trust in God, righteous kingship and justice for the poor, the struggle over the prosperity of the wicked, remembrance of God in national trouble, and God’s judgment that puts down one and lifts up another. Simple diagrams are added where they clarify the movement of the psalm. Divine Principle and True Father are named where the connection is clearly in view.
Comment on 71:1: Psalm 71 begins with trust that spans a lifetime. The speaker is not new to God, but deeply rooted in long experience of refuge.
Comment on 71:5–6: This is a beautiful life-course testimony. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because providence is not only about isolated moments but about Heaven upholding a person across the whole span from youth onward.
Comment on 71:9: This is one of the great old-age prayer verses. True Father often emphasized that Heaven’s course is not only for the strong season of life; the latter years also must remain under God’s care and purpose.
Comment on 71:15 and 71:18: The aged believer still has mission: to declare God’s strength to the next generation. This is deeply important. Providence is handed on, not hoarded.
Comment on 71:20 and 71:23: The psalm joins severe trouble and renewed quickening. Heaven is confessed as the One who revives after deep affliction.
Comment on 72:1: Psalm 72 is a great royal justice psalm. The king needs God’s judgments and righteousness. Divine Principle strongly resonates here because central leadership must receive Heaven’s standard, not invent self-serving rule.
Comment on 72:2 and 72:4: The true king is measured especially by how he judges the poor and saves the needy. True Father often emphasized that Heaven’s leadership always bends toward the weak and vulnerable rather than the proud and comfortable.
Comment on 72:7: Righteous flourishing and abundance of peace define the ideal rule. This is a beautiful vision of kingdom order.
Comment on 72:8 and 72:11: The psalm widens from national kingship to universal horizon. Divine Principle strongly values this expansion from righteous center to worldwide blessing and order.
Comment on 72:12–14: This is one of the most beautiful descriptions of righteous rule in Scripture: hearing the needy, redeeming from violence, and valuing their blood as precious in his sight.
Comment on 72:17 and 72:19: The psalm ends in universal blessing and God’s glory filling the earth. This is a strong providential horizon of worldwide restoration under righteous centrality.
Psalm 72 is a royal psalm of justice, peace, and worldwide blessing. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of righteous central leadership, special care for the poor and oppressed, and the expansion of Heaven’s order until the whole earth is filled with God’s glory.
Comment on 73:1: Psalm 73 opens with a true conclusion stated before the struggle is unfolded. This matters. The psalmist knows the truth about God’s goodness even while wrestling with confusing appearances.
Comment on 73:2–3: This is one of the great honesty passages in Scripture. Divine Principle strongly recognizes the temptation created by the visible prosperity of evil in fallen history.
Comment on 73:12: The psalm states the scandal directly. Outward success is often not a reliable measure of Heaven’s approval.
Comment on 73:16–17: This is the great turning point. Understanding comes in the sanctuary. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because providential truth becomes clear only from Heaven’s viewpoint, not from surface comparison alone.
Comment on 73:23 and 73:25–26: These are some of the greatest devotion verses in the Psalms. The final answer to the prosperity of the wicked is not envy but discovering God Himself as portion, strength, and permanent nearness.
Psalm 73 is a psalm of near-stumbling and sanctuary revelation. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of the misleading appearance of evil’s success, the necessity of entering Heaven’s viewpoint to discern true endings, and the final discovery that God Himself is the enduring portion of the righteous.
Comment on 74:1: Psalm 74 is a national lament over devastation. The people still call themselves the sheep of God’s pasture even while experiencing what feels like abandonment.
Comment on 74:3: The sanctuary itself has been violated. This intensifies the sorrow: the place of meeting with God is desecrated.
Comment on 74:9: This is one of the deepest desolation verses in Scripture. No signs, no prophet, no one knowing how long. Divine Principle strongly recognizes these historical periods where Heaven seems silent and the providential center appears shattered.
Comment on 74:12: Even amid devastation, memory of God’s kingship and saving work remains. This is crucial. The covenant memory holds when present conditions are dark.
Comment on 74:13–14: The psalm recalls God’s victory over chaotic powers. Divine Principle strongly resonates with this because Heaven’s rule is shown in overcoming the deep, wild, and hostile forces that threaten ordered creation and providence.
Comment on 74:16 and 74:22: The God who owns day and night is asked to arise and plead His own cause. This is a strong appeal for Heaven to defend what bears His name.
Psalm 74 is a psalm of desolation, covenant memory, and appeal for God to arise. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of historical periods where the visible center is broken, yet the faithful remember Heaven’s ancient victories and cry for God to defend His own cause again.
Comment on 75:1: Psalm 75 begins in thanksgiving because God’s name is near. The nearness of Heaven is not abstract; it is evidenced in wondrous works.
Comment on 75:2: God Himself declares upright judgment. This is a powerful response to the confusions of history and corrupt rule.
Comment on 75:4–5: The psalm warns against proud self-exaltation. Divine Principle strongly affirms that fallen man repeatedly tries to raise his own horn instead of receiving rightful position from Heaven.
Comment on 75:6–7: This is one of the major appointment verses in the Psalms. True Father often emphasized that true raising up and true putting down belong finally to God’s judgment, not to worldly maneuvering.
Comment on 75:8: The cup signifies God’s active judgment against the wicked. Moral order is not abandoned forever.
Comment on 75:9–10: The psalm ends in declaration and reversal. The wicked horn is cut off, and the righteous horn is exalted. This is a classic Heaven-centered reversal pattern in history.
Psalm 75 is a psalm of divine appointment and reversal. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes
God of Original Ideal Commentary
Psalm 71 is a psalm of lifelong trust and late-life mission. It strongly reflects Divine Principle themes of God’s sustaining care from youth through old age, the refusal to let strength-failure end one’s purpose, and the calling to pass Heaven’s testimony to the next generation.