Psalm 75
God Judges the Wicked
For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.” A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.
1 We give thanks to you, God;
we give thanks to you, for your name is near.(B)
People tell about your wondrous works.(C)
2 “When I choose a time,
I will judge fairly.(D)
3 When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the one who steadies its pillars.(E)Selah
4 I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.(F)
5 Do not lift up your horn against heaven[a]
or speak arrogantly.’”(G)
6 Exaltation does not come
from the east, the west, or the desert,
7 for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.(H)
8 For there is a cup in the Lord’s hand,
full of wine blended with spices, and he pours from it.
All the wicked of the earth will drink,
draining it to the dregs.(I)
9 As for me, I will tell about him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.(J)
10 “I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,(K)
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(L)
Footnotes
- 75:5 Lit horn to the height
Cross references
- 75:0 : 1Ch 16:5,7
- 75:1 : Dt 4:7; Ps 145:18; Is 55:6; Lm 3:57
- 75:1 : Ps 26:7
- 75:2 : Ps 9:8; 96:10
- 75:3 : 1Sm 2:8; Ps 46:6; Is 24:19
- 75:4 : Pr 27:1; Jr 9:23
- 75:5 : 1Sm 2:3; Ps 94:4
- 75:6–7 : 1Sm 2:7–8; Ps 50:6; Lk 1:52–53
- 75:8 : Is 51:17,22; Jr 25:15–17
- 75:9 : Ps 9:2; 18:49; 81:1
- 75:10 : Jr 48:25
- 75:10 : Ps 89:17; 92:10; 148:14