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 him that excelleth. Destroy not. A Psalme or song committed toAsaph. We will prayse thee, O God, we will prayse thee, for thy Name is neere: therefore they will declare thy wonderous workes.

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

When I shall take a conuenient time, I will iudge righteously.

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

The earth and all the inhabitantes thereof are dissolued: but I will establish the pillars of it. (Selah)

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

I saide vnto the foolish, Be not so foolish, and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne.

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

Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.

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

For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,

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

But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.

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 full mixt, and he powreth out of the same: surely all the wicked of the earth shall wring out and drinke the dregges thereof.

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

But I will declare for euer, and sing prayses vnto the God of Iaakob.

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

All the hornes of the wicked also will I breake: but the hornes of the righteous shalbe exalted.