Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Psalms 75:5 in other translations
| BSB | Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’” |
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| WEB | Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.” |
| ASV | Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck. |
| YLT | Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.) |
| DARBY | Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck. |
| BBE | Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks. |
| Webster | Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. |
What does Psalms 75:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 75:4-8
4-8. Here the writer speaks in view of God's declaration, warning the wicked. Lift ... up the horn--to exalt power, here, of the wicked himself--that is, to be arrogant or self-elated.
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 75:1-5
We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to be managed uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be…
Psalms 75:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Psalms 75:5
- Isaiah 48:4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
- 2 Chronicles 30:8
Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the Lord, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the Lord your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
- Exodus 32:9
And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Deuteronomy 31:27
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?
- Ezekiel 2:4
For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God.
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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Context
- Psalms 75:4
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
- Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- Psalms 75:6
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Psalms 75:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | No levantéis en alto vuestro cuerno; no habléis con cerviz erguida. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | J’ai dit à ceux qui se glorifient: Ne vous glorifiez pas; et aux méchants: N’élevez pas votre corne; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Erhebet nicht hoch euer Horn; redet nicht Freches mit gerecktem Halse! |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Illuminans tu mirabiliter a montibus æternis; |