Psalms 76:8 - Exposition

Thou didst cause judgment to be heard from heaven. By the destruction of Sennacherib's host, God spoke, as it were, with a voice of thunder, to the whole earth. He delivered a "judgment," or a "sentence" (Revised Version), which could not be ignored. The earth feared, and was still. All the world, i.e. all the Oriental world, feared. The attention of the nations of Western Asia generally was attracted ( 2 Chronicles 32:23 ), and their minds were affected with a wholesome fear of Jehovah. The result was that they remained at rest and gave Israel rest.