Psalm 75

Common Metre (8,6,8,6)

Suggested Tunes:

(vv.1-4) 76 Huddersfield, 105 St Andrew

(vv.5-10) 57 Elgin

1    To thee, O God, do we give thanks,

            we do give thanks to thee;

      Because thy wondrous works declare

            thy great name near to be.

2    I purpose, when I shall receive

            the congregation,

      That I shall judgment uprightly

            render to ev’ry one.

3    Dissolved is the land, with all

            that in the same do dwell;

      But I the pillars thereof do

            bear up, and stablish well.

4    I to the foolish people said,

            Do not deal foolishly;

      And unto those that wicked are,

            Lift not your horn on high.

5    Lift not your horn on high, nor speak

6          with stubborn neck. But know,

      That not from east, nor west, nor south,

            promotion doth flow.

7    But God is judge; he puts down one,

            and sets another up.

8    For in the hand of God most high

            of red wine is a cup:

      ’Tis full of mixture, he pours forth,

            and makes the wicked all

      Wring out the bitter dregs thereof;

            yea, and they drink them shall.

9    But I for ever will declare,

            I Jacob’s God will praise.

      All horns of lewd men I’ll cut off;

10        but just men’s horns will raise.