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II

So I say to the boastful: “Do not boast!”(A)
    to the wicked: “Do not raise your horns![a]
Do not raise your horns against heaven!
    Do not speak with a stiff neck!”(B)
For judgment comes not from east or from west,
    not from the wilderness or the mountains,(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 75:5 Do not raise your horns!: the horn is the symbol of strength; to raise one’s horn is to exalt one’s own power as Ps 75:5 explains.

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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Do not lift up your horn on high;
Do not speak with [a]a stiff neck.’ ”

For exaltation comes neither from the east
Nor from the west nor from the south.
But (A)God is the Judge:
(B)He puts down one,
And exalts another.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 75:5 Insolent pride