Psalms 75

1 TO THE OVERSEER. “DO NOT DESTROY.” A PSALM OF ASAPH. A SONG. We have given thanks to You, O God, We have given thanks, and Your Name [is] near, They have recounted Your wonders.

For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song. We give thanks unto Thee, O God, we give thanks, and Thy name is near; men tell of Thy wondrous works.

2 When I receive an appointment, I judge uprightly.

'When I take the appointed time, I Myself will judge with equity.

3 The earth and all its inhabitants are melted, I have pondered its pillars. (Selah)

When the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved, I Myself establish the pillars of it.' (Selah)

4 I have said to the boastful, “Do not be boastful,” And to the wicked, “Do not raise up a horn.”

I say unto the arrogant: 'Deal not arrogantly'; and to the wicked: 'Lift not up the horn.'

5 Do not raise up your horn on high (You speak with a stiff neck).

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.

6 For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness—[is] elevation.

For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the wilderness, cometh lifting up.

7 But God [is] judging, This He makes low—and this He lifts up.

For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

8 For a cup [is] in the hand of YHWH, And the wine has foamed, It is full of mixture, and He pours out of it, Surely wring out its dregs, And all the wicked of the earth drink,

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, with foaming wine, full of mixture, and He poureth out of the same; surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.

9 And I declare [it] for all time, I sing praise to the God of Jacob.

But as for me, I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 And I cut off all horns of the wicked, The horns of the righteous are exalted!

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.