Psalms 75

1 For the choirmaster: To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm of Asaph. A song. We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works.

To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song. To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.

2 “When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.

When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.

3 When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars.

When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah)

4 I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.

I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.

5 Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

6 For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,

For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;

7 but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.

8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.

For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.

9 But I will proclaim Him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.

10 “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”

By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.