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-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 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 its inhabitants 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 [cometh] 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 putteth down one, and setteth 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 poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it 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.