1 Thanksgiving for God’s Righteous Judgment To the Chief Musician. Set to Ps. 57:title “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm of Asaph. A Song. We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks! For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.
2 “When I choose the proper time, I will judge uprightly.
3 The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved; I set up its pillars firmly. Selah
4 “I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal boastfully,’ And to the wicked, (1 Sam. 2:3); Ps. 94:4 ‘Do not lift up the horn.
5 Do not lift up your horn on high; Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
6 For exaltation comes neither from the east Nor from the west nor from the south.
7 But Ps. 50:6 God is the Judge: 1 Sam. 2:7; Ps. 147:6; Dan. 2:21 He puts down one, And exalts another.
8 For Job 21:20; Ps. 60:3; Jer. 25:15; Rev. 14:10; 16:19 in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, And the wine is red; It is fully mixed, and He pours it out; Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth Drain and drink down.
9 But I will declare forever, I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 “All Ps. 101:8; Jer. 48:25 the horns of the wicked I will also cut off, But Ps. 89:17; 148:14 the horns of the righteous shall be 1 Sam. 2:1 exalted.”