Psalms 75:5

5 Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak with such arrogance.’”

Psalms 75:5 Meaning and Commentary

Psalms 75:5

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 blasphemy against God, his name, his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven, ( Daniel 7:8 Daniel 7:20 ) ( Revelation 18:1 Revelation 18:6 ) ,

speak [not with] a stiff neck;
arrogantly, proudly, and haughtily: or "hard things with a neck" ^F18; hard speeches against Christ and his people with an outstretched neck, in an imperious and insolent manner; for the righteous Judge will convince such of their hard speeches, and condemn them for them; ( Jude 1:14 Jude 1:15 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 (Mwrml) "contra excelsum", Junius & Tremellius.
F18 (qte rawub) "collo durum", Michaelis.

Psalms 75:5 In-Context

3 When the earth quakes and its people live in turmoil, I am the one who keeps its foundations firm. Interlude

4 “I warned the proud, ‘Stop your boasting!’ I told the wicked, ‘Don’t raise your fists!

5 Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavens or speak with such arrogance.’”

6 For no one on earth—from east or west, or even from the wilderness— should raise a defiant fist.

7 It is God alone who judges; he decides who will rise and who will fall.