Psalm 75

¹⁸The Lord is near to all who call on Him, to all who call out to Him in truth.

²I bow down toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else.

⁶There is none like You, O Lord. You are great, and Your name is mighty in power.

⁷For what nation is great enough to have a god as near to them as the Lord our God is to us whenever we call on Him?

²¹Pay attention to him and listen to his voice; do not defy him, for he will not forgive rebellion, since My Name is in him.

¹For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of Asaph. A song. God is known in Judah; His name is great in Israel.

¹⁷I said in my heart, “God will judge the righteous and the wicked, since there is a time for every activity and every deed.”

³¹For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”

⁶Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

⁷Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

¹³You will rise up and have compassion on Zion, for it is time to show her favor—the appointed time has come.

³So all the elders of Israel came to the king at Hebron, where King David made with them a covenant before the Lord. And they anointed him king over Israel.

⁸He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the Lord’s, and upon them He has set the world.

¹⁹The earth is utterly broken apart, the earth is split open, the earth is shaken violently.

³The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of His nature, upholding all things by His powerful word. After He had provided purification for sins, He sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.

⁸This is what the Lord says: “In the time of favor I will answer You, and in the day of salvation I will help You; I will keep You and appoint You to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land, to apportion its desolate inheritances,

¹Behold, the Lord lays waste the earth and leaves it in ruins. He will twist its surface and scatter its inhabitants—

²people and priest alike, servant and master, maid and mistress, buyer and seller, lender and borrower, creditor and debtor.

⁷And as the women danced, they sang out: “Saul has slain his thousands, and David his tens of thousands.”

²¹“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

²²“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?

⁵O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.

²“How long will you judge unjustly and show partiality to the wicked? Selah

³Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; uphold the rights of the afflicted and oppressed.

⁸Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?

¹⁷For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.

⁴For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.

⁵¹You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

⁸Now do not stiffen your necks as your fathers did. Submit to the Lord and come to His sanctuary, which He has consecrated forever. Serve the Lord your God, so that His fierce anger will turn away from you.

⁹The Lord also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.

²⁷For I know how rebellious and stiff-necked you are. If you are already rebelling against the Lord while I am still alive, how much more will you rebel after my death!

⁴They are obstinate and stubborn children. I am sending you to them, and you are to say to them, ‘This is what the Lord God says.’

³But You, O Lord, are a shield around me, my glory, and the One who lifts my head.

⁵²He has brought down rulers from their thrones, but has exalted the humble.

²¹He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.

²²He reveals the deep and hidden things; He knows what lies in darkness, and light dwells with Him.

⁶The Lord sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

⁷He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump

⁸to seat them with nobles, with the princes of His people.

²¹But David said to Michal, “I was dancing before the Lord, who chose me over your father and all his house when He appointed me ruler over the Lord’s people Israel. I will celebrate before the Lord,

⁶And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

²⁰Let his eyes see his own destruction; let him drink for himself the wrath of the Almighty.

¹⁵This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.

⁶On the wicked He will rain down fiery coals and sulfur; a scorching wind will be their portion.

¹⁹The great city was split into three parts, and the cities of the nations collapsed. And God remembered Babylon the great and gave her the cup of the wine of the fury of His wrath.

⁹And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand,

¹⁰he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. And he will be tormented in fire and sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the Lamb.

¹⁷So I took the cup from the Lord’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the Lord had sent me,

¹⁰I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.

³³I will sing to the Lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

¹⁴that I may declare all Your praises—that within the gates of Daughter Zion I may rejoice in Your salvation.

¹A Psalm of praise. Of David. I will exalt You, my God and King; I will bless Your name forever and ever.

²Every day I will bless You, and I will praise Your name forever and ever.

¹⁷For You are the glory of their strength, and by Your favor our horn is exalted.

¹⁰But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.

²⁵The horn of Moab has been cut off, and his arm is broken,” declares the Lord.

²⁰Then the Lord showed me four craftsmen.

²¹“What are these coming to do?” I asked. And He replied, “These are the horns that scattered Judah so that no one could raise his head; but the craftsmen have come to terrify them and throw down these horns of the nations that have lifted up their horns against the land of Judah to scatter it.”

⁸Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the Lord.

¹⁴He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!