Psalms 75:6
(75-7) For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the wilderness, cometh lifting up.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
In Context
5(75-6) Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.
7(75-8) For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
Cross References
Psalms 3:3(3-4) But thou, O LORD, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head.
Jeremiah 48:30I know his arrogancy, saith the LORD, that it is ill-founded; his boastings have wrought nothing well-founded.
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 →