“ Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. ”
Lift 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”...
Lift not up your (e) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck. (e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them...
LXXV. The Inevitable Judgment. The Ps. opens with praise of God and His wondrous works. After Psalms 75:1 it is God who speaks. God will surely judge the world, though He waits for His appointed...
Speak not with. stiff neck. According to the primitive orthography. nor speak arrogantly of the Rock. not. See note on "no" ( Genesis 2:6 ),
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. Speak 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...
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: -In reliance on God's promise ( Psalms 75:2-3 ), Israel warns the haughty foe no more to lift up the neck in...
In contrast with the plaintive strains of Psalms 74 this is a Ps. of thanksgiving for some national deliverance ( Psalms 75:1 ). It celebrates God as the Judge of all the earth, who interposes in H...
Lift not up your horn. — The “horn” is a symbol of honour ( Psalms 112:9 ); of strength ( Micah 4:13 ; Deuteronomy 33:17 ). The figure is taken from horned animals. (See 1 Samuel 2:1 ; 1 Sam...
Psalms 75:1-10 THIS psalm deals with the general thought of God's judgment in history, especially on heathen nations. It has no clear marks of connection with any particular instance of that judgm...
God Putteth down and Lifteth up Psalms 75:1-10 This psalm dates probably from Sennacherib's invasion, and therefore the North is omitted in Psalms 75:6 , that being the quarter from which th...
If this, and the former psalm, were written by different men and at different periods, then the spiritual sense of the editor is most clearly revealed in their juxtaposition in this book. This is a c...
Jesus proclaims grace to the humble, and destruction to the proud. Reader, our nature by the fall is truly ignorant: and next to the absolute ruin of our nature by sin, the most awful effect of Adam'...
Lift not up your horn on high ,.... Or "against the most High" q; as the little horn, or the beast with ten horns, antichrist, does, whose look is more stout than his fellows, and opens his mouth in...
Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck. Ver. 5. Lift not up your horn on high ] Against the high God; so Tremellius rendereth it. Speak not with a stiff neck ] Some rend...
I said With authority and command; unto the fools The wicked: I charged them; Deal not foolishly Desist from your impious and injurious practices, which shall not now go unpunished as they have...
The Magistrate's Resolution. To the chief musician, Al-taschith. A psalm or song of Asaph. 1 Unto thee, O God, do...
Lift not up your horn on high; a metaphor from untamed and stiff-necked oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke, but lift up their heads and horns to avoid it. Or, against the Hig...
INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician, Altaschith :” see introduction to Psalms 57 . “ A Pslam—a song of Asaph :” see introduction to Psalms 74 . “There are,” says Perowne, “no c...
Title. Al-taschith: do not suffer me to perish. The style indicates that this was a psalm of David, when the courtiers of Saul had pronounced him guilty of high treason for aiming at the throne. He...
For that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare. God’s nearness to the world I. He is near as the sustainer of a dissolving system ( Psalms 75:3 ). The force of disintegration operates eve...
EXPOSITION This is a hymn of praise in anticipation of a deliverance, which may be from Sennacherib, or from some other dangerous enemy. The actual praise is confined to the first and the last t...
The Church Praises the Nearness of God's Judgment. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of public worship, Al-taschith, according to the melody "Destroy Not," a psalm or song of A...
2 Chronicles 30:8 ; Acts 7:51 ; Deuteronomy 31:27 ; Exodus 32:9 ; Ezekiel 2:4 ; Isaiah 48:4
Lift not — A metaphor from untamed oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke. Stiff neck — With pride and contempt.