Charles Ellicott Commentary Psalms 76:10

"Surely the wrath of man shall praise thee: The residue of wrath shalt thou gird upon thee." — Psalms 76:10 (ASV)

Surely. —The text of this verse as it stands is unintelligible—

“Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee;
The residue of wrath Thou shalt gird Thyself with.”

But the Septuagint and Vulgate suggest the necessary emendation—

“Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee,
And the residue of wraths do Thee honour,”

where the residue of wrath, like Virgil’s reliquiœ Danaum (Æ n. 1:30), means those who escape the enemies’ rage, that is, the Israelites.

Possibly we should render, “and those who remain from their wrath shall celebrate a festival,” since the suggested emendation is the word used in that sense.

And we must therefore think of the escape of Israel from Egypt (see above), and the festival that was so repeatedly announced to Pharaoh, as the purpose of their exodus. (See Burgess, Notes on the Hebrew Psalms.)