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Commentaries and Other Bible Study Helps - Prayer Tents - Prayer Tents
75:2-5 God Declares that He Will Judge the Earth with Equity. In this section, God speaks, promising that he will work his perfect judgment over the earth. This judgment will be with equity, preserving the stability of God's creation order (pillars). Specifically, he will rebuke the boastful and the wicked (names for people who do not know God, and who are preeminent for their unbelief). The psalm does not make clear whether this set time is the time of the final judgment for all the earth, or any time in which God chooses to make his justice visible. The words fit both senses.
75:4 lift up your horn. The horn is a symbol of power (cf. 1 Kings 22:11; Zech. 1:18-21), and thus to lift it up (or "exalt" it) is to make a public assertion of power. God warns the ungodly not to lift up their horn, and promises that he will lift up the horn of the faithful. The term "lift up" recurs throughout the psalm (Ps. 75:4-6, 10). To "cut off" the horns (v. 10) is to render powerless and to humiliate.
