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But from God who decides,
    who brings some low and raises others high.(A)
Yes, a cup[a] 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.(B)
10 But I will rejoice forever;
    I will sing praise to the God of Jacob,

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Footnotes

  1. 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.

In the hand of the Lord is a cup
    full of foaming wine mixed(A) with spices;
he pours it out, and all the wicked of the earth
    drink it down to its very dregs.(B)

As for me, I will declare(C) this forever;
    I will sing(D) praise to the God of Jacob,(E)
10 who says, “I will cut off the horns of all the wicked,
    but the horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”(F)

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