Psalms · 10 verses
Psalms 75
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The chapter
What happens here
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East, west, and the desert are all dismissed as sources of exaltation; the poem leaves the missing direction politely unexplained.
The judge with the foaming cupvv. 1–8
The song opens with thanks because God's Name is near, while the people declare His wondrous works. Then God speaks: judgment will come at the chosen time, and even a quaking earth rests on His bearing up its pillars. The proud are told not to boast, and the wicked not to lift their horn toward heaven with an outstretched neck. Exaltation comes from none of the named quarters or the desert, but from God, who brings one down and raises another. The punishment arrives in a cup—foaming wine, mixed with spices—which all the wicked of the earth must drink to the dregs. It is a remarkably well-appointed cup for such an unhappy appointment.
The final songvv. 9–10
The speaker answers the cup and the judgment with a vow to proclaim God forever and sing praise to the God of Jacob. The closing declaration returns to the horns: those of the wicked will be cut off, while the horns of the righteous will be exalted. The poem began with the people declaring wondrous works and ends with horns sorted into two rather different futures.
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Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Names the Hebrew and Greek put in the verse link to the person, place or people they name; the address beside each verse is a link to that verse, which is what a reader copies and shares.
Ps 75:1For 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.
Ps 75:2“When I choose a time, I will judge fairly.
Ps 75:3When the earth and all its dwellers quake, it is I who bear up its pillars. Selah
Ps 75:4I say to the proud, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.
Ps 75:5Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
Ps 75:6For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert,
Ps 75:7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.
Ps 75:8For 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.
Ps 75:9But I will proclaim Him forever; I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
Ps 75:10“All the horns of the wicked I will cut off, but the horns of the righteous will be exalted.”
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Where this is echoed
Readers' own connections, from OpenBible's crowd-voted cross-references — agreement about relevance, and not scholarly confidence. 93 passages were voted onto 10 verses of this chapter; the 16 shown lead on votes, and each is listed at the verse it was voted onto most strongly.
- 7Luke 1:52He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.
- 8Job 21:20Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.
- 8Jeremiah 25:15This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
- 8Psalms 11:6On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.
- 7Daniel 2:21–22He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.
- 8Revelation 16:19The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.
- 31 Samuel 2:8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD’s, and upon them He has set the world.
- 7Psalms 147:6The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.
- 7Psalms 113:7–8He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
- 8Revelation 14:9–10And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand,
- 1Psalms 145:18The LORD is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.
- 2Ecclesiastes 3:17I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”
- 4Zechariah 1:21“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”
- 72 Samuel 6:21But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the LORD, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the LORD’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the LORD,
- 7Psalms 50:6And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah
- 8Jeremiah 25:17So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
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