Psalms 75:5
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
Cross References
Exodus 32:9The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;
Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
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 →