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God the Judge

For the director of music. To the tune of “Do Not Destroy.” A song of Asaph.

75 God, we thank you.
    We thank you because you are near.
    We tell about the wonderful things you do.

You say, “I set the time for trial.
    I will judge fairly.
The earth with all its people may shake.
    I am the one who holds it steady. Selah
I say to those who are proud, ‘Don’t brag.’
    I say to the wicked, ‘Don’t show your power.
Don’t try to use your power against heaven.
    Don’t be stubborn.’”

No one from the east or the west
    or the desert can judge you.
God is the judge.
    He judges one person as guilty, and another as innocent.
The Lord holds a cup of anger in his hand.
    It is full of wine mixed with spices.
He pours it out even to the last drop.
    And the wicked drink it all.

I will tell about this forever.
    I will sing praise to the God of Jacob.
10 He will take all power away from the wicked.
    But the power of good people will grow.

75 Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.

When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.

The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.

I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

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

For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

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.

But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.