Psalms 75:5

What does Psalms 75:5 mean?

A plain-English look at Psalms 75:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

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

Context

v.4I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

v.5This passage

v.6For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • 2 Chronicles 30:8

    Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers were; but yield yourselves unto Jehovah, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever, and serve Jehovah your God, that his fierce anger may turn away from you.

  • Isaiah 48:4

    Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

  • Deuteronomy 31:27

    For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against Jehovah; and how much more after my death?

  • Ezekiel 2:4

    And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

  • Acts 7:51

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • Exodus 32:9

    And Jehovah said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

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