Psalm 75

God Judges the Wicked

For the choir director: “Do Not Destroy.”[a] A psalm of Asaph.(A) A song.

We give thanks to You, God;
we give thanks to You, for Your name is near.
People tell about Your wonderful works.(B)

“When I choose a time,
I will judge fairly.(C)
When the earth and all its inhabitants shake,
I am the One who steadies its pillars.(D)Selah
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.(E)
Do not lift up your horn against heaven
or speak arrogantly.’”(F)

Exaltation does not come
from the east, the west, or the desert,
for God is the Judge:
He brings down one and exalts another.(G)
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.(H)

As for me, I will tell about Him forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.(I)

10 “I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,(J)
but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(K)

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 75:1 Possibly a tune

75 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.