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Thanksgiving for God’s Future Help

For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy.

A psalm of Asaph. A song.[a]

75 We give thanks to you, O God;
we give thanks, and your name is near.
Your wonderful deeds are told.[b]
“I will indeed set an appointed time;
I will judge fairly.[c]
The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking;[d]
I steady[e] its columns. Selah
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast!’
and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn!
Do not lift up high your[f] horn.
Do not speak with arrogant pride.’”[g]
For it is not from the east or the west
and not from the south[h] that lifting up comes,
rather God is the judge;
one he brings low, and another he lifts up.
For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh
with[i] wine that foams, fully mixed,
and he pours out from this.
Surely all the wicked of the land
will quaff it down to its dregs. [j]
But as for me, I will proclaim forever;
I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
10 “And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off.
The horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 75:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 75:1 Hebrew “They tell your wonderful deeds”
  3. Psalm 75:2 Hebrew “I, I will judge” might be emphatic
  4. Psalm 75:3 Or “melting away”
  5. Psalm 75:3 Hebrew “I, I steady” might be emphatic
  6. Psalm 75:5 Plural
  7. Psalm 75:5 Hebrew “an unrestrained neck”
  8. Psalm 75:6 Hebrew “wilderness”
  9. Psalm 75:8 Hebrew “and”
  10. Psalm 75:8 Literally “they will drain, they will drink its dregs”

For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song.

75 We give thanks to you, God.
    We give thanks, for your Name is near.
    Men tell about your wondrous works.

When I choose the appointed time,
    I will judge blamelessly.
The earth and all its inhabitants quake.
    I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!”
    I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
Don’t lift up your horn on high.
    Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
For neither from the east, nor from the west,
    nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
But God is the judge.
    He puts down one, and lifts up another.
For in Yahweh’s hand there is a cup,
    full of foaming wine mixed with spices.
He pours it out.
    Indeed the wicked of the earth drink and drink it to its very dregs.

But I will declare this forever:
    I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked,
    but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.