Psalms 75 – Promotion Cometh Neither From the East
A reminder that God alone raises up and puts down.
This chapter of the Psalms overview answers the lament of Psalms 74 with confident thanksgiving, declaring that God alone decides who is put down and who is set up, since promotion comes from Him and not from any direction on earth.
We give thanks unto thee, O God; We give thanks, for thy name is near: Men tell of thy wondrous works.
When I shall find the set time, I will judge uprightly.
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I have set up the pillars of it. Selah
I 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.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, `cometh' lifting up.
But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
For in the hand of Jehovah there is a cup, and the wine foameth; It is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: Surely the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall drain them, and drink them.
But I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; But the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up. Psalm 76 For the Chief Musician; on stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph, a song.