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Psalm 75 Free Bible Version

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1 For the music director. A psalm of Asaph. According to “Do Not Destroy.” A song. We thank you, God, we thank you because you are close beside us. People tell about the wonderful things you have done.
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 God says, “When the time I have decided comes, I will judge fairly.
2 When I choose the appointed time, I will judge blamelessly.
3 When the earth quakes, and all its inhabitants tremble, I am the one who holds it steady. Selah.
3 The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
4 To those who boast I say, ‘Don't boast!’ I tell the wicked, ‘Don't be proud!’
4 I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
5 No, don't be proud and arrogant, insulting heaven.”
5 Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
6 For no one, from the east to the west, or from the wilderness, should think so highly of themselves.
6 For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
7 God is the one who decides—who he will bring down and who he will lift up.
7 But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
8 For the Lord has a cup in his hand, full of bubbling wine mixed with spices. He pours it out, and all the wicked drink it deeply, down 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 speak about you forever. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
9 But I will declare this forever: I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 For God says, “I will break the power of the wicked; but I will give my support to those who do what is good.”
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)