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.

To you, O God, do we give thanks, to you do we give thanks: for that your name is near your wondrous works declare.

2 When I receive an appointment, I judge uprightly.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

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

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up 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 said to the fools, Deal not foolishly: 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 with a stiff neck.

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

For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

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

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets 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, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he pours out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.

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

But 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 exalted.