Psalms 75:5
\75:4\I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4\75:3\When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)
6\75:5\Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
Cross References
Exodus 32:9And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not be hard-hearted, as your fathers were; but give yourselves to the Lord, and come into his holy place, which he has made his for ever, and be the servants of the Lord your God, so that the heat of his wrath may be turned away from you.
Isaiah 48:4Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;
Acts 7:51You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 75:2-6
The Magistrate's Resolution. 1 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. 2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly. 3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah. 4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: 5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. In these verses, I. The psalmist gives to God the praise of… Read the whole commentary →