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.

Unto the end. May you not be corrupted. A Canticle Psalm of Asaph. We will confess to you, O God. We will confess, and we will call upon your name. We will describe your wonders.

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

While I have time, I will judge justices.

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

The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.

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

I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.”

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

Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God.

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

For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains.

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

For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts.

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, there is a cup of undiluted wine, full of consternation. And he has tipped it from here to there. So, truly, its dregs have not been emptied. All the sinners of the earth will drink.

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

But I will announce it in every age. I will sing 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.”

And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.