Psalm 75:5-9
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
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5 So I say to the boastful: “Do not boast!”(A)
to the wicked: “Do not raise your horns![a]
6 Do not raise your horns against heaven!
Do not speak with a stiff neck!”(B)
7 For judgment comes not from east or from west,
not from the wilderness or the mountains,(C)
8 But from God who decides,
who brings some low and raises others high.(D)
9 Yes, a cup[b] is in the Lord’s hand,
foaming wine, fully spiced.
When God pours it out,
they will drain it even to the dregs;
all the wicked of the earth will drink.(E)
Footnotes
- 75:5 Do not raise your horns!: the horn is the symbol of strength; to raise one’s horn is to exalt one’s own power as Ps 75:5 explains.
- 75:9 A cup: “the cup of God’s wrath” is the punishment inflicted on the wicked, cf. Is 51:17; Jer 25:15–29; 49:12; Eze 23:31–33. Spiced: lit., “a mixed drink”; spices or drugs were added to wine, cf. Prv 9:2, 5.
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