KJV King James Version
Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
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Psalm 75:5
Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
WEB World English Bible
Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
ASV American Standard Version
Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)
Surrounding context — Psalm 75
2 When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4 I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5 Lift not up your horn on high: speak [not with] a stiff neck.
6 For promotion [cometh] neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7 But God [is] the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8 For in the hand of the LORD [there is] a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring [them] out, [and] drink [them].
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2 Chronicles 30:8Now be ye not stiffnecked, as your fathers [were, but] yield yourselves unto the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he hath sanctified for ever: and serve the LORD your God, that the fierceness of his wrath may turn away from you.Acts 7:51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that thou [art] obstinate, and thy neck [is] an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;Ezekiel 2:4For [they are] impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD.Exodus 32:9And the LORD said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and, behold, it [is] a stiffnecked people:Deuteronomy 31:27For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the LORD; and how much more after my death?
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