Psalm 75:4 To the arrogant I say, 'Boast no more,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
To the arrogant I say, 'Boast no more,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horns.

English Standard Version
I say to the boastful, ‘Do not boast,’ and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn;

New American Standard Bible
"I said to the boastful, 'Do not boast,' And to the wicked, 'Do not lift up the horn;

King James Bible
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I say to the boastful, 'Do not boast,' and to the wicked, 'Do not lift up your horn.

International Standard Version
I will say to the proud, "Don't brag," and to the wicked, "Don't vaunt your strength.

American Standard Version
I said unto the arrogant, Deal not arrogantly; And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Douay-Rheims Bible
I said to the wicked: Do not act wickedly: and to the sinners: Lift not up the horn.

Darby Bible Translation
I said unto the boastful, Boast not; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Young's Literal Translation
I have said to the boastful, 'Be not boastful,' And to the wicked, 'Raise not up a horn.'

Cross References

Psalm 5:5
The foolish shall not stand in your sight: you hate all workers of iniquity.

Amos 6:13
You which rejoice in a thing of nothing, which say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

Zechariah 1:19
And I said to the angel that talked with me, What be these? And he answered me, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, Israel, and Jerusalem.

Zechariah 1:21
Then said I, What come these to do? And he spoke, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

75:1-5 We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to be managed uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be wise. To the proud, daring sinners he says, Boast not of your power, persist not in contempt. All the present hopes and future happiness of the human race spring from the Son of God.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

4-8. Here the writer speaks in view of God's declaration, warning the wicked.

Lift … up the horn—to exalt power, here, of the wicked himself—that is, to be arrogant or self-elated.