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Psalm 75:5–7

Do not lift your horns against heaven;

do not speak so defiantly.x’ ”

No one from the east or the west

or from the desert can exalt themselves.

It is God who judges:y

He brings one down, he exalts another.z

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Psalm 75:5–7 — English Standard Version (ESV)

do not lift up your horn on high,

or speak with haughty neck.’ ”

For not from the east or from the west

and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,

but it is God who executes judgment,

putting down one and lifting up another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

Lift not up your horn on high:

Speak not with a stiff neck.

For promotion cometh neither from the east,

Nor from the west, nor from the south.

But God is the judge:

He putteth down one, and setteth up another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavens

or speak with such arrogance.’ ”

For no one on earth—from east or west,

or even from the wilderness—

should raise a defiant fist.

It is God alone who judges;

he decides who will rise and who will fall.

Psalm 75:5–7 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

Do not lift up your horn on high;

Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”

For exaltation comes neither from the east

Nor from the west nor from the south.

But God is the Judge:

He puts down one,

And exalts another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — New Century Version (NCV)

Don’t try to use your power against heaven.

Don’t be stubborn.’ ”

No one from the east or the west

or the desert can judge you.

God is the judge;

he judges one person as guilty and another as innocent.

Psalm 75:5–7 — American Standard Version (ASV)

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.

Psalm 75:5–7 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a stiff neck.

For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation come: For God is the judge; he putteth down one and exalteth another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Don’t raise your weapons so proudly 

or speak so defiantly.” 

The ⸤authority⸥ to reward someone does not ⸤come⸥ 

from the east, 

from the west, 

or ⸤even⸥ from the wilderness. 

God alone is the judge. 

He punishes one person and rewards another. 

Psalm 75:5–7 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Do not lift up your horn against heaven

or speak arrogantly.’ ”

Exaltation does not come

from the east, the west, or the desert,

for God is the Judge:

He brings down one and exalts another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

do not lift up your horn on high,

or speak with insolent neck.”

For not from the east or from the west

and not from the wilderness comes lifting up;

but it is God who executes judgment,

putting down one and lifting up another.

Psalm 75:5–7 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Do not lift up high your horn.

Do not speak with arrogant pride.’ ”

For it is not from the east or the west

and not from the south that lifting up comes,

rather God is the judge;

one he brings low, and another he lifts up.

Psalm 75:5–7 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

Don’t show it off against me.

Don’t speak with your noses in the air.’ ”

No one from east or west or north or south

can act as judge.

God is the One who judges.

He says to one person, “You are guilty.”

To another he says, “You are not guilty.”

Psalm 75:5–7 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Do not lift up your horn on high,

Do not speak with insolent pride.’ ”

For not from the east, nor from the west,

Nor from the desert comes exaltation;

But God is the Judge;

He puts down one and exalts another.


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