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Psalms 75:5
5Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high, Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
Psalms 75:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
- New International Version (NIV)Do not lift your horns against heaven; do not speak so defiantly.’ ”
- English Standard Version (ESV)do not lift up your horn on high, or speak with haughty neck.'"
- New King James Version (NKJV)Do not lift up your horn on high; Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
Context of Psalms 75:5
3“The earth and all the inhabitants of it melt [in tumultuous times]. It is I who will steady its pillars. Selah. 4I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast;’ And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn [of self-glorification]. Do not lift up your [defiant and aggressive] horn on high, Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ” 6For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the desert comes exaltation. 7But God is the Judge; He puts down one and lifts up another.
Read all of Psalms 75Psalms 75:5 word by word
אַל־תָּרִ֣ימוּ לַמָּר֣וֹם קַרְנְכֶ֑ם תְּדַבְּר֖וּ בְצַוָּ֣אר עָתָֽק׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 75:5
- Exodus 32:9The Lord said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked (stubborn, rebellious) people.
- Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your rebellion and contention and your stubbornness; behold, while I am still alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the Lord; how much more, then, after my death?
- 2 Chronicles 30:8Now do not stiffen your neck [becoming obstinate] like your fathers, but yield to the Lord and come to His sanctuary which He has sanctified and set apart forever, and serve the Lord your God, so that His burning anger will turn away from you.
- Isaiah 48:4Because I know that you are obstinate, And your neck is an iron tendon And your brow is bronze [both unyielding],
- Ezekiel 2:4I am sending you to them who are stubborn and obstinate children, and you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord God.’
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and stubborn people, uncircumcised in heart and ears, you are always actively resisting the Holy Spirit. You are doing just as your fathers did.
Commentaries on Psalms 75:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Speak not with a stiff neck - Mr. Bruce has observed that the Abyssinian kings have a horn on their diadem; and that the keeping it erect, or in a projecting form, makes them appear as if they had a stiff neck; and refers to this passage for the antiquity of the usage, and the appearance also.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Lift not up your horn on high - In a proud, self-confident, arrogant manner. Speak not with a stiff neck - With arrogance and pride; in a haughty, imperious manner. The word rendered “stiff” (literally “a neck of stiffness”) - עתק ‛âthâq - means properly bold, impudent, wicked; and the idea is that of speaking as those do who are impudent, shameless, bold, licentious - indicating confidence in themselves, and a reckless disregard of truth and of the…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-5The wicked proudly defy heaven, where God lives. By boasting, they claim that they are wiser than God.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 4-84-8. Here the writer speaks in view of God's declaration, warning the wicked. Lift ... up the horn--to exalt power, here, of the wicked himself--that is, to be arrogant or self-elated.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 75
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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