1 W e give thanks to You, O God. We give thanks that Your name is near. Men tell about the great things You have done.

We give praise and thanks to You, O God, we praise and give thanks; Your wondrous works declare that Your Name is near and they who invoke Your Name rehearse Your wonders.

2 Y ou say, “When the right time has come, I will be right and fair in deciding who is guilty or not.

When the proper time has come, I will judge uprightly.

3 W hen the earth and all its people shake, it is I Who will hold it together.

When the earth totters, and all the inhabitants of it, it is I Who will poise and keep steady its pillars. Selah!

4 I said to the proud, ‘Do not speak with pride.’ And I said to the sinful, ‘Do not lift up the horn.

I said to the arrogant and boastful, Deal not arrogantly; and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn.

5 D o not lift your horn up high. Do not speak in your pride.’”

Lift not up your horn on high, speak not with a stiff neck and insolent arrogance.

6 F or honor does not come from the east or the west or from the desert.

For not from the east nor from the west nor from the south come promotion and lifting up.

7 B ut God is the One Who decides. He puts down one and brings respect to another.

But God is the Judge! He puts down one and lifts up another.

8 F or there is a cup in the Lord’s hand. It is full of strong wine that is well mixed. He pours out from it, and all the sinful people of the earth must drink all of it.

For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine foams and is red, well mixed; and He pours out from it, and all the wicked of the earth must drain it and drink its dregs.

9 B ut as for me, I will tell of it forever. I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

But I will declare and rejoice forever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

10 H e will cut off all the horns of the sinful. But the horns of those who are right with God will be lifted up.

All the horns of the ungodly also will I cut off, but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.