Psalms 75

1 For the music director. A psalm of Asaph. According to “Do Not Destroy.” A song. We thank you, God, we thank you because you are close beside us. People tell about the wonderful things you have done.

To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, [to thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.

2 God says, “When the time I have decided comes, I will judge fairly.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

3 When the earth quakes, and all its inhabitants tremble, I am the one who holds it steady. (Selah)

The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. (Selah)

4 To those who boast I say, ‘Don't boast!’ I tell the wicked, ‘Don't be proud!’

I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

5 No, don't be proud and arrogant, insulting heaven.”

Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.

6 For no one, from the east to the west, or from the wilderness, should think so highly of themselves.

For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

7 God is the one who decides—who he will bring down and who he will lift up.

But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

8 For the Lord has a cup in his hand, full of bubbling wine mixed with spices. He pours it out, and all the wicked drink it deeply, down to the last drop.

For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].

9 But I will speak about you forever. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 For God says, “I will break the power of the wicked; but I will give my support to those who do what is good.”

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.