Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.
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 be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce 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 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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 →