Psalms 75:5
Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
6For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
Cross References
Exodus 32:9The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the LORD and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the LORD your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.
Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
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 →