1 For the choirmaster: To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm of Asaph. A song. We give thanks to You, O God; we give thanks, for Your Name is near. The people declare Your wondrous works. 2 “When I choose a time, I will judge fairly. 3 When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah 4 I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn. 5 Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’” 6 For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert, 7 but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another. 8 For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs. 9 But I will proclaim Him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob. 10 “All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
Psalms · Majority Standard Bible
Psalm 75 Majority Standard Bible
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Notes on this text (1)
- Greek and Latin Bibles number most Psalms one lower than Hebrew and English Bibles.
Cross references (10)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Psalm 145:18; Psalm 138:2; Jeremiah 10:6; Deuteronomy 4:7; Exodus 23:21
- 2 Ecclesiastes 3:17; Acts 17:31; John 7:6; Acts 1:7; Psalm 102:13
- 3 1 Samuel 2:8; Isaiah 24:19; Hebrews 1:3; Isaiah 49:8; Isaiah 24:1–12
- 4 Zechariah 1:21; Proverbs 1:22; Proverbs 8:5; Psalm 82:2–8; Psalm 94:8
- 5 Isaiah 48:4; Acts 7:51; 2 Chronicles 30:8; Exodus 32:9; Deuteronomy 31:27
- 6 Psalm 3:3
- 7 Luke 1:52; Daniel 2:21–22; Psalm 147:6; Psalm 113:7–8; 2 Samuel 6:21
- 8 Job 21:20; Jeremiah 25:15; Psalm 11:6; Revelation 16:19; Revelation 14:9–10
- 9 Psalm 40:10; Psalm 104:33; Psalm 9:14; Psalm 145:1–2
- 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).
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)
… 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)