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Psalm 75 Bible in Basic English

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  • Scholarly edition
  • OT: Masoretic Hebrew (not verified)
  • NT: Critical text (not verified)
  • Protestant (66 books)
  • Simplified language
  • 1965
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Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings

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BBE Bible in Basic English
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
1 To the chief music-maker; put to Al-tashheth. A Psalm. Of Asaph. A Song. To you, O God, we give praise, to you we give praise: and those who give honour to your name make clear your works of power.
1 For the Chief Musician. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm by Asaph. A song. We give thanks to you, God. We give thanks, for your Name is near. Men tell about your wondrous works.
2 When the right time has come, I will be the judge in righteousness.
2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
3 When the earth and all its people become feeble, I am the support of its pillars. (Selah.)
3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
4 I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up.
4 I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
5 Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
6 For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;
6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
7 But God is the judge, putting down one, and lifting up another.
7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
8 For in the hand of the Lord is a cup, and the wine is red; it is well mixed, overflowing from his hand: he will make all the sinners of the earth take of it, even to the last drop.
8 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.
9 But I will ever be full of joy, making songs of praise to the God of Jacob.
9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 By him will all the horns of the sinners be cut off; but the horns of the upright will be lifted up.
10 I will cut off all the horns of the wicked, but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.
Cross references (10)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 145:18; Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:7; Exodus 23:21
  2. 2 Ecclesiastes 3:17; Acts 17:31; John 7:6; Acts 1:7; Psalm 102:13
  3. 3 1 Samuel 2:8; Isaiah 24:19; Hebrews 1:3; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 24:1–12
  4. 4 Zechariah 1:21; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 8:5; Psalm 82:2–8; Psalm 94:8
  5. 5 Isaiah 48:4; Acts 7:51; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 31:27
  6. 6 Psalm 3:3
  7. 7 Luke 1:52; Daniel 2:21–22; Psalm 147:6; Psalm 113:7–8; 2 Samuel 6:21
  8. 8 Job 21:20; Jeremiah 25:15; Psalm 11:6; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 14:9–10
  9. 9 Psalm 40:10; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 145:1–2
  10. 10 Psalm 89:17; Psalm 92:10; Jeremiah 48:25; Zechariah 1:20–21; Psalm 101:8

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Quotes verse 75:8 Augustine of Hippo, On Christian Doctrine (Book III, Chapters 22–27)

    There are passages, however, in regard to which it is uncertain in what sense they ought to be taken, as for example, "In the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red: it is full of mixture." Now it is uncertain whether this denotes the wrath of God, but not to the last extremity of …

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 2 (1887)

  2. Quotes verse 75:3 Basil of Caesarea, Hexaemeron (Homily I)

    … to your thought, so that your curiosity in investigating the incomprehensible may not incur the reproaches of Job, and you be not asked by him, "Whereupon are the foundations thereof fastened?" If ever you hear in the Psalms, "I bear up the pillars of it;" see in these pillars the power which sustains it.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 8 (1895)