Psalms 75
1 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.
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 shall take a conuenient time, I will iudge righteously.
While I have time, I will judge justices.
3 The earth and all the inhabitantes thereof are dissolued: but I will establish the pillars of it. (Selah)
The earth has been dissolved, with all who dwell in it. I have confirmed its pillars.
4 I saide vnto the foolish, Be not so foolish, and to the wicked, Lift not vp the horne.
I said to the iniquitous: “Do not act unjustly,” and to the offenders: “Do not exalt the horn.”
5 Lift not vp your horne on high, neither speake with a stiffe necke.
Do not exalt your horn on high. Do not speak iniquity against God.
6 For to come to preferment is neither from the East, nor from the West, nor from the South,
For it is neither from the east, nor from the west, nor before the desert mountains.
7 But God is the iudge: he maketh lowe and he maketh hie.
For God is judge. This one he humbles and that one he exalts.
8 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.
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 declare for euer, and sing prayses vnto the God of Iaakob.
But I will announce it in every age. I will sing to the God of Jacob.
10 All the hornes of the wicked also will I breake: but the hornes of the righteous shalbe exalted.
And I will break all the horns of sinners. And the horns of the just will be exalted.
