Thanksgiving for God’s Righteous Judgment

¹We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!

For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.

²“When I choose the proper time,

I will judge uprightly.

³The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved;

I set up its pillars firmly.

Selah

⁴“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal boastfully,’

And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.

⁵Do not lift up your horn on high;

Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”

⁶For exaltation comes neither from the east

Nor from the west nor from the south.

⁷But God is the Judge:[#Ps. 50:6]

He puts down one,

And exalts another.

⁸For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup,[#Job 21:20; Ps. 60:3; Jer. 25:15; Rev. 14:10; 16:19]

And the wine is red;

It is fully mixed, and He pours it out;

Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth

Drain and drink down.

⁹But I will declare forever,

I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.

¹⁰“All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off,[#Ps. 101:8; Jer. 48:25]

But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.”