What is your understanding of Psa 75:10?
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The Hebrew word translated "weapons" in the OP's version is qeren (keh'
ren) which basically refers to horns, particularly those of bovine bulls.
Horns in scripture typically depict political power, viz: the 75th Psalm is
taking about government rather than warfare; and is a good companion to
the 2nd Psalm.
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The Hebrew word translated "weapons" in the OP's version is qeren (keh'
ren) which basically refers to horns, particularly those of bovine bulls.
Horns in scripture typically depict political power, viz: the 75th Psalm is
taking about government rather than warfare; and is a good companion to
the 2nd Psalm.
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it’s sort of the same message in all
Of scripture the wicked will be destroyed and made low , and the righteous will be glorified and lifted up
God has a plan and while we always don’t understand why wicked people prosper in the world and righteous people suffer in the world
Gods plan is to make all things right in the end the wicked will receive their due as Will the righteous regardless of what happens in this life in this world
God will destroy the wicked and save the righteous is what I get from it
Of scripture the wicked will be destroyed and made low , and the righteous will be glorified and lifted up
God has a plan and while we always don’t understand why wicked people prosper in the world and righteous people suffer in the world
Gods plan is to make all things right in the end the wicked will receive their due as Will the righteous regardless of what happens in this life in this world
God will destroy the wicked and save the righteous is what I get from it
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Post #4 is correct that it is using the analogy of a bull's horns, which are in effect it's weapons against one's enemies, hence the translation. But the phrase "Lift not up the horn" in verses 5-6 appears to be in reference to opposing God and His laws:
5 I said unto the transgressors, "Do not transgress," and to the sinners, "Lift not up the horn. 6 Lift not up your horn on high, speak not unrighteousness against God...." 8 For God is the judge, he puts down one, and raises up another... 11 I will break all the horns of the sinners, but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted.
The criticism is of God here, but the Psalmist is saying it is unwise to speak against God because He has the power to exalt one man and bring another man low. The Psalmist then says with regard to himself, "I will break all the horns of sinners, but the horns of the righteous one shall be exalted," which means that as a righteous man he had the power to rebuke the sinners, and thereby break the words they are speaking against God, but he will exalt the horn of the righteous, meaning he will bring honor to the words spoken by those who exalt God.
The alternate interpretation is that verse 11 is God speaking, but the end is essentially the same for the unrighteous. One way or another, they will be broken.
If one reads the whole Psalm ----you will see that it is all about God giving victory to the Righteous and destroying the wicked
So I agree with Pilgrimshope post on verse 10 of Psalms 75
The word Horn is used in verse 5 as well and if you look that up it means Power --strength ---see below
https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/horn/
Horn
This word is used metaphorically also for strength ( Deuteronomy 33:17 ) and honour ( Job 16:15 ; Lamentations 2:3 ). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them ( Daniel 8:5 Daniel 8:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:1 ; 1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:13 ; 1 Kings 1:39 ; 22:11 ; Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:5 ; Psalms 75:5 Psalms 75:10 ; 132:17 ; Luke 1:69 , etc.
So I agree with Pilgrimshope post on verse 10 of Psalms 75
The word Horn is used in verse 5 as well and if you look that up it means Power --strength ---see below
https://www.biblestudytools.com/dictionary/horn/
Horn
This word is used metaphorically also for strength ( Deuteronomy 33:17 ) and honour ( Job 16:15 ; Lamentations 2:3 ). Horns are emblems of power, dominion, glory, and fierceness, as they are the chief means of attack and defence with the animals endowed with them ( Daniel 8:5 Daniel 8:9 ; 1 Samuel 2:1 ; 1 Samuel 16:1 1 Samuel 16:13 ; 1 Kings 1:39 ; 22:11 ; Joshua 6:4 Joshua 6:5 ; Psalms 75:5 Psalms 75:10 ; 132:17 ; Luke 1:69 , etc.
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“If one reads the whole Psalm ----you will see that it is all about God giving victory to the Righteous and destroying the wicked”
amen this you have said of this particular psalm , is the key to understanding the Bible plus consistent prayer for understanding of course.
Rather than plucking out a single verse if we read the whole chapter or whole prophecy or whole psalm it teaches us what the individual verses are saying
And even more once we do that part and begin understanding the prophecies and psalms as a whole they start to witness the gospel and the single verses like these for other examples
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? …….But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
Psalm 22:1, 6-8, 16-18 KJV
Or this for another prophets example
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5-6 KJV
make better sense and have more clear meaning to the one who’s hearing the gospel . The law and prophets explain a lot of the meaning behind what the New Testament says when we learn the gospel .
Then later after we start seeing what’s really there we see it being fulfilled in the gospel so this then makes better sense afterwards in the epistles when we realize the prophets and psalms were preaching beforehand , the same things and the apostles afterwards preached the same gospel after it was fulfilled by Jesus
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray;
but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”
1 Peter 2:24-25 KJV
Scripture is very progressive and depends upon the foundation of prior foundations of the prophets and law understanding everything is about Jesus and the gospel witnessing to us that he is the one to hear and follow and believe in .
amen this you have said of this particular psalm , is the key to understanding the Bible plus consistent prayer for understanding of course.
Rather than plucking out a single verse if we read the whole chapter or whole prophecy or whole psalm it teaches us what the individual verses are saying
And even more once we do that part and begin understanding the prophecies and psalms as a whole they start to witness the gospel and the single verses like these for other examples
“My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? …….But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people.
All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying, He trusted on the Lord that he would deliver him: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.
For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. I may tell all my bones: they look and stare upon me. They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.”
Psalm 22:1, 6-8, 16-18 KJV
Or this for another prophets example
“But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
Isaiah 53:5-6 KJV
make better sense and have more clear meaning to the one who’s hearing the gospel . The law and prophets explain a lot of the meaning behind what the New Testament says when we learn the gospel .
Then later after we start seeing what’s really there we see it being fulfilled in the gospel so this then makes better sense afterwards in the epistles when we realize the prophets and psalms were preaching beforehand , the same things and the apostles afterwards preached the same gospel after it was fulfilled by Jesus
“Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness:
by whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray;
but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls.”
1 Peter 2:24-25 KJV
Scripture is very progressive and depends upon the foundation of prior foundations of the prophets and law understanding everything is about Jesus and the gospel witnessing to us that he is the one to hear and follow and believe in .
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