75:1 WE GIVE praise {and} thanks to You, O God, we praise {and} give thanks; Your wondrous works declare that Your Name is near {and} they who invoke Your Name rehearse Your wonders. |
75:2 When the proper time has come [for executing My judgments], I will judge uprightly [says the Lord]. |
75:3 When the earth totters, and all the inhabitants of it, it is I Who will poise {and} keep steady its pillars. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! |
75:4 I said to the arrogant {and} boastful, Deal not arrogantly [do not boast]; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn [of personal aggrandizement]. |
75:5 Lift not up your [aggressive] horn on high, speak not with a stiff neck {and} insolent arrogance. |
75:6 For not from the east nor from the west nor from the south come promotion {and} lifting up. |
75:7 But God is the Judge! He puts down one and lifts up another. |
75:8 For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup [of His wrath], and the wine foams {and} is red, well mixed; and He pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink its dregs. |
75:9 But I will declare {and} rejoice forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob. |
75:10 All the horns of the ungodly also will I cut off [says the Lord], but the horns of the [uncompromisingly] righteous shall be exalted. |