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76:10-12 Let All the People Praise the Lord. Since God gets praise even out of the schemes of unjust men, it is only right that his favored ones worship and love him. The wrath of man shall praise you, i.e., the way that God thwarts their wrathful schemes leads people to acknowledge God's rule. The phrase the remnant of wrath you will put on like a belt is obscure; by virtue of the parallelism, it probably means that God takes the last futile efforts of human wrath and wears it like an ornamental belt, extracting every last bit of honor from it. (Another possibility sees the "remnant of wrath" as the survivors of wrath, whom God attaches to his belt; but this makes less of a parallel with the first line.) vows . . . perform. See note on 56:12-13. The expression to be feared, referring to God, is two-edged: God's people fear him in reverential love, while the Gentile kings fear him because he cuts off the spirit of princes (although the OT hope is that the Gentiles will one day come to fear him in the first way).