Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
6For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:
Cross References
Exodus 32:9And Jehovah said to Moses, I see this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah your God, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass,
Acts 7:51O stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, *ye* do always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers, *ye* also.
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 →