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Psalms 75:5

Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.

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In the Hebrew text this line is Psalms 75:6.

אַלalnotאַלparticle, negative — “not”H408not (the qualified negation, used as a deprecative); once (Job 24:25) as a noun, nothingnay, neither, [phrase] never, no, nor, not, nothing (worth), rather than.תָּרִ֣ימוּtarimvhighרוּםverb, hiphil, jussive, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “high”, a wish or indirect commandH7311to be high actively, to rise or raise (in various applications, literally or figuratively)bring up, exalt (self), extol, give, go up, haughty, heave (up), (be, lift up on, make on, set up on, too) high(-er, one), hold up, levy, lift(-er) up, (be) lofty, ([idiom] a-) loud, mount up, offer (up), [phrase] presumptuously, (be) prom…לַמָּר֣וֹםlamaromto aboveמָרוֹםpreposition, with the article, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “to above”, the ordinary formH4791altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)(far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.קַרְנְכֶ֑םqarnekhemhornקֶרֶןnoun, common, both genders, singular, construct, suffix, pronominal, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “horn”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH7161a 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 mountain), a ray (of light); figuratively, power[idiom] hill, horn.תְּדַבְּר֖וּtedabrvspeakדָבַרverb, piel, imperfect, 2nd person, masculine, plural — “speak”, an unfinished actionH1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdueanswer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, [idiom] well, [idiom] work.בְצַוָּ֣ארvetsavarin neckצַוָּארpreposition, noun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “in neck”, the ordinary formH6677the back of the neck (as that on which burdens are bound)neck.עָתָֽקataqarrogancyעָתָקnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “arrogancy”, the ordinary formH6277impudentarrogancy, grievous (hard) things, stiff.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

(75-6) Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.

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American Standard Version (1901)

Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.

Young’s Literal Translation

Raise not up on high your horn, (Ye speak with a stiff neck.)

World English Bible

Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

Darby Translation

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not arrogantly with a [stiff] neck.

Douay-Rheims

Thou enlightenest wonderfully from the everlasting hills.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

(75-6) Lift not up your horn on high; speak not insolence with a haughty neck.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

Lift not up your horn on high; speak not unrighteousness against God.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Μὴ ἐπαίρετε εἰς ὕψος τὸ κέρας ὑμῶν, μὴ λαλεῖτε κατὰ τοῦ Θεοῦ ἀδικίαν.