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 musician, Al-tashcheth, a psalm or song of Asaph.” We give thanks unto thee, O God, we give thanks, and nigh is thy name: men relate thy wondrous deeds.

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

“For I will take up a fixed time when I will judge uprightly.

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

The earth and all her inhabitants are melting away: I myself establish firmly her pillars.” (Selah)

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

I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn.

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

Lift not up on high your horn, speak not with a stiffly erect neck.

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

For neither from the rising [of the sun], nor from [his] setting, nor from the wilderness of mountains [cometh this];

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

But God is the judge: he lowereth one, and lifteth 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 there is a cup in the hand of the Lord, and the wine foameth, it is full of mixture: and he poureth out of the same; but its lees they drain, they drink—all the wicked of the earth.

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 praises 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 all the horns of the wicked will I hew off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.