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Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

Psalms 75:5

Verse Psalms 75:5. Speak not with a stiff neck.] Mr. Bruce has observed that the Abyssinian kings have a horn on their diadem; and that the keeping it erect, or in a projecting form, makes them appear as if they had a stiff neck; and refers to this passage for the antiquity of the usage, and the appearance also.

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See also Psalms 75:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    LIFT NOT UP YOUR HORN ON HIGH - In a proud, self-confident, arrogant manner. SPEAK NOT WITH A STIFF NECK - With arrogance and pride; in a haughty, imperious manner. The word rendered “stiff” (literall...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    Psalms 75 The Divine Answer _ 1. Christ the righteous judge (Psalms 75:1)_ 2. His judgment (Psalms 75:6) It is Christ as King who is pictured in this Psalm coming to answer the pleas of His people...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    LXXV. THE INEVITABLE JUDGMENT. The Ps. opens with praise of God and His wondrous works. After Psalms 75:1 it is God who speaks. God will surely judge the world, though He waits for His appointed time....

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    SPEAK NOT WITH. STIFF NECK. According to the primitive orthography. nor speak arrogantly of the Rock. NOT. See note on "no" (Genesis 2:6),...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A warning to all presumptuous braggarts, based on the Divine utterances of Psalms 75:2. It is disputed whether the speaker is still God, as in Psalms 75:2, or the poet, but the latter alternative is p...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    _speak_not _with a stiff neck_ Better, as R.V. marg., _Speak not insolently with a_haughty _neck_. Cp. 1 Samuel 2:3; and for _neck_= _haughty neck_, see Job 15:26. _Not_should not have been italicised...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    PSALMS 75 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Song, Enshrining an Oracular Assurance of Equitable Judgment by the Judge of the Earth. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 75:1, Congregational Thanksgiving, Promising a Rehea...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn: -In reliance on God's promise (Psalms 75:2), Israel warns the haughty foe no more to lift up the neck in pride, f...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    In contrast with the plaintive strains of Psalms 74 this is a Ps. of thanksgiving for some national deliverance (Psalms 75:1). It celebrates God as the Judge of all the earth, who interposes in His ow...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ EARTHQUAKES, HORNS AND A CUP OF WINE! (SEE THE NOTES) PSALMS 75 Jesus woke up and he was angry with the wind. He said to the sea, "Shut your mouth and stop makin...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    LIFT NOT UP YOUR HORN. — The “horn” is a symbol of _honour_ (Psalms 112:9); of _strength_ (Micah 4:13; Deuteronomy 33:17). The figure is taken from horned animals. (See...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    _[Psalms 75:6]_ אַל ־תָּרִ֣ימוּ לַ † מָּרֹ֣ום...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    Psalms 75:1 THIS psalm deals with the general thought of God's judgment in history, especially on heathen nations. It has no clear marks of connection with any particular instance of that judgment. Th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    GOD PUTTETH DOWN AND LIFTETH UP Psalms 75:1 This psalm dates probably from Sennacherib's invasion, and therefore the _North_ is omitted in Psalms 75:6, that being the quarter from which the enemy ca...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    If this, and the former psalm, were written by different men and at different periods, then the spiritual sense of the editor is most clearly revealed in their juxtaposition in this book. This is a co...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Lift not up your (e) horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck. (e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them w...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Hills. Of Juda, which are styled eternal, on account of their stability, Deuteronomy xxxiii. 15. Hebrew seems to be incorrect. (Calmet) --- "Thou art a light magnificently from (Haydock) or more than,...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Jesus proclaims grace to the humble, and destruction to the proud. Reader, our nature by the fall is truly ignorant: and next to the absolute ruin of our nature by sin, the most awful effect of Adam's...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    In Psalms 75 Messiah is introduced speaking, though the psalm commences with the remnant giving thanks to God for wondrous works already wrought. Then judgments of God introduce Messiah to the kingdom...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    LIFT NOT UP YOUR HORN ON HIGH,.... Or "against the most High" q; as the little horn, or the beast with ten horns, antichrist, does, whose look is more stout than his fellows, and opens his mouth in bl...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck._ Ver. 5. _Lift not up your horn on high_] Against the high God; so Tremellius rendereth it. _ Speak not with a stiff neck_] Some render...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _I said_ With authority and command; _unto the fools_ The wicked: I charged them; _Deal not foolishly_ Desist from your impious and injurious practices, which shall not now go unpunished as they have...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    THE CHURCH PRAISES THE NEARNESS OF GOD'S JUDGMENT. To the chief musician, for use in the liturgical part of public worship, Al-taschith, according to the melody "Destroy Not," a psalm or song of Asap...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    lift not up your horn on high, in displaying the instruments of violence, in brandishing them for the attack upon the righteous; SPEAK NOT WITH A STIFF NECK, with insolence and presumption....

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    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...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    LIFT NOT UP YOUR HORN ON HIGH; a metaphor from untamed and stiff-necked oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke, but lift up their heads and horns to avoid it. Or, _against the High_,...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Psalms 75:5 up H7311 (H8686) horn H7161 high H4791 speak H1696 (H8762) stiff H6277 neck H6677 speak -

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: A rebuke for those who fail to reckon with God. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph. CONCLUSION: A word from God soon abases the lofty, and hence failure to reckon on God is madness. Even kings serve H...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Title. _Al-taschith:_ do not suffer me to perish. The style indicates that this was a psalm of David, when the courtiers of Saul had pronounced him guilty of high treason for aiming at the throne. He...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Speak not with a stiff neck._ STIFF NECKS The text is a figure of that pride, stubbornness, or wilful disobedience which refuses to yield to rightful and loving authority. I. Let me indicate the c...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _For that Thy name is near Thy wondrous works declare._ GOD’S NEARNESS TO THE WORLD I. He is near as the sustainer of a dissolving system (Psalms 75:3). The force of disintegration operates every mom...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 75:1. This is a hymn of praise. It thanks God for the wondrous deeds he has done for Israel. It celebrates the fact that he is the judge of all the earth. He will, in his ow...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 75:2 JUDGE. God’s judgment will be WITH EQUITY. This fairness preserves the stability of God’s creation order (PILLARS)....

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician, Altaschith_:” see introduction to Psalms 57. “_A Pslam—a song of Asaph_:” see introduction to Psalms 74. “There are,” says Perowne, “no clearly...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION This is a hymn of praise in anticipation of a deliverance, which may be from Sennacherib, or from some other dangerous enemy. The actual praise is confined to the first and the last two ver...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare. When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly (Psalms 75:1-2). T...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    2 Chronicles 30:8; Acts 7:51; Deuteronomy 31:27; Exodus 32:9; Ezekie

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Lift not — A metaphor from untamed oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke. Stiff neck — With pride and contempt....

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