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.
To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm [or] Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, [to thee] do we give thanks: for [that] thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.
\\75:1\\To the chief Musician, Al-taschith, A Psalm or Song of Asaph. To thee, O God, do we give thanks, to thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near, thy wondrous works declare.
\\75:2\\When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
\\75:3\\The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
\\75:4\\I said to the fools, Deal not foolishly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
\\75:5\\Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
\\75:6\\For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
\\75:7\\But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
\\75:8\\For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture, and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs of it all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
\\75:9\\But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
\\75:10\\All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.