Psalm 75:6 No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt themselves.

◄ Psalm 75:6 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
No one from the east or the west or from the desert can exalt themselves.

English Standard Version
For not from the east or from the west and not from the wilderness comes lifting up,

New American Standard Bible
For not from the east, nor from the west, Nor from the desert comes exaltation;

King James Bible
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Exaltation does not come from the east, the west, or the desert,

International Standard Version
For exaltation comes not from the east, the west, or the wilderness,

American Standard Version
For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the desert hills:

Darby Bible Translation
For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation come:

Young's Literal Translation
For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- is elevation.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

75:6-10. No second causes will raise men to preferment without the First Cause. It comes neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. He mentions not the north; the same word that signifies the north, signifies the secret place; and from the secret of God's counsel it does come. From God alone all must receive their doom. There are mixtures of mercy and grace in the cup of affliction, when it is put into the hands of God's people; mixtures of the curse, when it is put into the hands of the wicked. God's people have their share in common calamities, but the dregs of the cup are for the wicked. The exaltation of the Son of David will be the subject of the saints' everlasting praises. Then let sinners submit to the King of righteousness, and let believers rejoice in and obey him.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

6. promotion—literally, "a lifting up." God is the only right judge of merit.