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Psa 75:3 — The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

earth		Psa 60:1-3; Psa 78:60-72; 1Sa 31:1-7; Isa 24:1-12
I bear		1Sa 18:7; 1Sa 25:28; 2Sa 5:2; Isa 49:8; Hbr 1:3
pillars		1Sa 2:8

Correlating Passages

earth

	Psa 60:1	[[To the chief Musician upon Shushaneduth, Michtam of David, to teach; when he strove with Aramnaharaim and with Aramzobah, when Joab returned, and smote of Edom in the valley of salt twelve thousand.]] O God, thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us, thou hast been displeased; O turn thyself to us again.
	Psa 60:2	Thou hast made the earth to tremble; thou hast broken it: heal the breaches thereof; for it shaketh.
	Psa 60:3	Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.
	Psa 78:60	So that he forsook the tabernacle of Shiloh, the tent [which] he placed among men;
	Psa 78:61	And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.
	Psa 78:62	He gave his people over also unto the sword; and was wroth with his inheritance.
	Psa 78:63	The fire consumed their young men; and their maidens were not given to marriage.
	Psa 78:64	Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.
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	1Sa 31:1	Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
	1Sa 31:2	And the Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul's sons.
	1Sa 31:3	And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.
	1Sa 31:4	Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it.
	1Sa 31:5	And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him.
	1Sa 31:6	So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.
	1Sa 31:7	And when the men of Israel that [were] on the other side of the valley, and [they] that [were] on the other side Jordan, saw that the men of Israel fled, and that Saul and his sons were dead, they forsook the cities, and fled; and the Philistines came and dwelt in them.
	Isa 24:1	Behold, the LORD maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.
	Isa 24:2	And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.
	Isa 24:3	The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the LORD hath spoken this word.
	Isa 24:4	The earth mourneth [and] fadeth away, the world languisheth [and] fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.
	Isa 24:5	The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
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I bear

	1Sa 18:7	And the women answered [one another] as they played, and said, Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
	1Sa 25:28	I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days.
	2Sa 5:2	Also in time past, when Saul was king over us, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the LORD said to thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be a captain over Israel.
	Isa 49:8	Thus saith the LORD, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;
	Hbr 1:3	Who being the brightness of [his] glory, and the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;

pillars

1Sa 2:8

He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.

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Scott, Thomas. "Psalms 75:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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