Psalms 75:5

(75:6) Lift not up on high your horn, speak not with a stiffly erect neck.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

In Context

4(75:5) I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn.

6(75:7) For neither from the rising [of the sun], nor from [his] setting, nor from the wilderness of mountains [cometh this];

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Cross References

Exodus 32:9And the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people.

2 Chronicles 30:8Now do ye not harden your necks, like your fathers: hold out your hand unto the Lord, and come unto his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve the Lord your God, and so will he turn away from you the fierceness of his wrath.

Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, that like an iron sinew is thy neck, and thy brow of copper;

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 →

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