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.
For the Leader; Al-tashheth. A Psalm of Asaph, a Song.
We give thanks unto Thee, O G-d, we give thanks, and Thy name is near; men tell of Thy wondrous works.
'When I take the appointed time, I Myself will judge with equity.
When the earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved, I Myself establish the pillars of it.' Selah
I say unto the arrogant: 'Deal not arrogantly'; and to the wicked: 'Lift not up the horn.'
Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the wilderness, cometh lifting up.
For G-d is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.
For in the hand of HaShem there is a cup, with foaming wine, 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 as for me, I will declare for ever, I will sing praises to the G-d of Jacob.
All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be lifted up.