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, corrupt not, a psalm of a canticle for Asaph. We will praise thee, O God: we will praise, and we will call upon thy name. We will relate thy wondrous works:

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

When I shall take a time, I will judge justices.

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

The earth is melted, and all that dwell therein: I have established the pillars thereof.

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

I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

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

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not iniquity against God.

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

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

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

For God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

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 strong wine full of mixture. And he hath poured it out from this to that: but the dregs thereof are not emptied: all the sinners of the earth shall drink.

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

But I will declare for ever: 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: but the horns of the just shall be exalted.