Judging with equity

Psalms 75 and 76: Post-modern folks don't often have to worry about being judged. We live our lives according to our passions (or so it would seem if you watch reality TV and home improvement shows)  and don't have the same concern for social norms as our parents. So reading two psalms about judgment seems just a bit harsh. In Psalm 75, God speaks through a prophetic or priestly voice and promises to judge with equity (v. 2). The psalmist and readers seem to accept the idea of being judged by the deity and they apparently found comfort in the equitable judgment. Evil folks get their due and God will put one down and lift up another (v. 7). The theme continues in the 76, a psalm of Zion, where God utters judgment from the heavens to save the oppressed of the earth (some parallelism there in v. 8-9). Underneath this theme of judgment is the subtext of how the earth reacts: it totters (75: 3) with all its inhabitants, which seems fitting in light of our current environmental crisis, it is fearful and still ( 76:9).