Psalms 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Webster Bible
In The King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
In Context
4I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
6For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
Cross References
Exodus 32:9And the LORD said to Moses, I have seen this people, and behold it is a stiff-necked people:
2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiff-necked, as your fathers were , but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath 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 thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
Acts 7:51Ye stiff-necked, and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: 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 →