Psalms Chapter 75 verse 6 Holy Bible
For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, `cometh' lifting up.
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For honour does not come from the east, or from the west, or uplifting from the south;
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For not from the east nor from the west, nor yet from the south doth exaltation [come]:
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For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
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Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
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For neither from the east, nor from the west, Nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
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For not from the east, or from the west, Nor from the wilderness -- `is' elevation.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 6. - For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south. So Hupfeld, Kay, Canon Cook, and the Revised Version Others suggest the meaning to be, "For it is not from the east, nor is it from the west, nor yet from the mountainous desert [that help cometh]." But the ellipse of the main idea is improbable. The address is to the enemies who threaten Israel, "Lift not up your horns - speak not proudly - for exaltation comes not from any earthly quarter - east, west, north, or south" ("north" being omitted, as sufficiently implied in the others); it is God alone who gives it, and he is not likely to give it to you."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(6) For promotion . . .--The Authorised Version has here rightly set aside the pointing of the text, which, as the LXX. and Vulg., reads--"For not from the east, nor from the west,Nor from the wilderness of mountains,"a sentence which has no conclusion. The recurrence also of parts of the verb "to lift up" in Psalm 75:4-5; Psalm 75:7, makes in favour of taking harim as part of the same verb here, instead of as a noun, "mountains." That the word midbar (wilderness) might be used for "south," receives support from Acts 8:26.Ewald thinks the four points of the compass should be completed by inserting a conjunction, and taking the "desert" and "mountains" to represent respectively the south and north. He then supplies the conclusion of the sentence from the following verse:--"For neither from east nor west, . . .
