Revised Version 1895
Psalms 75:5
5Lift not up your horn on high; speak not 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
3The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah 4I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: Lift not up your horn on high; speak not with a stiff neck. 6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up. 7But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
Read all of Psalms 75Psalms 75:5 word by word
אַל־תָּרִ֣ימוּ לַמָּר֣וֹם קַרְנְכֶ֑ם תְּדַבְּר֖וּ בְצַוָּ֣אר עָתָֽק׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 75:5
- Exodus 32:9And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:
- Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
- 2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve the LORD your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.
- Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;
- Ezekiel 2:4And the children are impudent and stiffhearted; I do send thee unto them: and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.
- Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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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