Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Updated King James Version
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
6For promotion comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Cross References
Exodus 32:9And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stubborn people:
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be all of you not stubborn, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.
Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow brass;
Acts 7:51All of you stubborn and uncircumcised in heart and ears, all of you do always resist the Holy Spirit: (o. pneuma) as your fathers did, so do all of you.
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 →