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 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 receive an appointment, I judge uprightly.

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

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

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

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

I said 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 on high your horn, speak not with a stiffly erect neck.

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

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

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

But God is the judge: he lowereth 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 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 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!

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