Psalm

Thanksgiving for God’s Future Help

For the music director, according to Do Not Destroy.

A psalm of Asaph. A song.[a]

75 
We give thanks to you, O God;

we give thanks, and your name is near.

Your wonderful deeds are told.[b]

“I will indeed set an appointed time;

I will judge fairly.[c]

The earth and all its inhabitants are shaking;[d]

I steady[e] its columns. Selah

I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast!’

and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn!

Do not lift up high your[f] horn.

Do not speak with arrogant pride.’”[g]

For it is not from the east or the west

and not from the south[h] that lifting up comes,

rather God is the judge;

one he brings low, and another he lifts up.

For there is a cup in the hand of Yahweh

with[i] wine that foams, fully mixed,

and he pours out from this.

Surely all the wicked of the land

will quaff it down to its dregs. [j]

But as for me, I will proclaim forever;

I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.

10 “And all the horns of the wicked I will cut off.

The horns of the righteous will be lifted up.”

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 75:1 The Hebrew Bible counts the superscription as the first verse of the psalm; the English verse number is reduced by one
  2. Psalm 75:1 Hebrew “They tell your wonderful deeds”
  3. Psalm 75:2 Hebrew “I, I will judge” might be emphatic
  4. Psalm 75:3 Or “melting away”
  5. Psalm 75:3 Hebrew “I, I steady” might be emphatic
  6. Psalm 75:5 Plural
  7. Psalm 75:5 Hebrew “an unrestrained neck”
  8. Psalm 75:6 Hebrew “wilderness”
  9. Psalm 75:8 Hebrew “and”
  10. Psalm 75:8 Literally “they will drain, they will drink its dregs”