Psalms 75:5
Do not lift up your horn against heaven or speak with an outstretched neck.’”
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ASV
Lift not up your horn on high; Speak not with a stiff neck.
KJV
Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
Lift not up your horn on high. For their abounding pride there is a double rebuke. A word from God soon abases the lofty. Would to God that all proud men would obey the word here given them; for, if they do not, he will take effectual means to secure obedience, and then woe will come upon them, such as shall break their horns and roll their glory in the mire for ever. Speak not with a stiff neck. Impudence before God is madness. The outstretched neck of insolent pride is sure to provoke his axe.
Here the writer speaks in view of God's declaration, warning the wicked. Lift . . . up the horn--to exalt power, here, of the wicked himself--that is, to be arrogant or self-elated.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
Through
Isaiah 48:4For I knew that you are stubborn; your neck is iron and your forehead is bronze.
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You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
The LORD also said to Moses, “I have seen this people, and they are indeed a stiff-necked people.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
Then He said to me, “Son of man, go now to the house of Israel and speak My words to them.
Through
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
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Circumcise your hearts, therefore, and stiffen your necks no more.
But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.
Circumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to…
