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 done. Lift not up your horn, &c. Do not carry yourselves with pride and arrogance, boasting of your own strength; or with scorn and contempt toward me or any others of God's people. It is a metaphor taken from untamed oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke, but lift up their heads and horns to avoid it. Or, למרום, lammarom, rendered, on high, means, against the high one, that is, against God, who is mentioned under this same title, Psalms 56:2; Isaiah 57:15. Speak not
Against me and my government; with a stiff neck With pride and contempt of my person, and with rebellion against God's will declared concerning my advancement, of which you are not ignorant: see 2 Samuel 3:17-18.