Psalms 75:6 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁶For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.

Psalms 75:6 —

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Psalms 3:3
But thou, O LORD, art a shield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head.

Topics

Ambition Arrogance Atheism Attributes of God Conceit God Guidance Haughtiness

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 6-10)

In these verses we have two great doctrines laid down and two good inferences drawn from them, for the confirmation of what he had before said. I. Here are two great truths laid down concerning God’s government of the world, which we ought to mix faith with, both pertinent to the occasion:— 1. That from God alone kings receive their power (Ps. 75:6, 7), and therefore to God alone David would give…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 6)

4-8. 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.