King James Version
Psalms 75:5 in the King James Version says “Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 75 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.”
Psalms 75:5 · KJV
The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. south: Heb. desert
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
KJV Study — Public Domain
not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (job 24:25) as a noun, nothing
“Lift not up”
H7311to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)
“on high”
H4791altitude, i.e., concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
“your horn”
H7161a horn (as projecting); by implication, a flask, cornet; by resemblance. an elephant's tooth (i.e., ivory), a corner (of the altar), a peak (of a moun
“speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
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