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Psalms 75
1.Unto thee, O God, do we give thanks, unto thee do we give thanks: for that thy name is near thy wondrous works declare.
2.When I shall receive the congregation I will judge uprightly.
3.The earth and all the inhabitants thereof are dissolved: I bear up the pillars of it. Selah.
4.I said unto the fools, Deal not foolishly: and to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:
5.Lift not up your horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck.
6.For promotion cometh neither from the east, nor from the west, nor from the south.
7.But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.
8.For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.
9.But I will declare for ever; I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10.All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; but the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.
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Why does the psalmist say God holds a red, mixed cup that the wicked must drink?
The psalmist portrays God as sovereign judge who controls fortunes: “in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture.” The cup images judgment that is administered by God, poured out so that the wicked “shall wring them out, and drink them,” signaling inevitable consequence set by divine will.
This chapter links that cup to the theme of reversal: “he putteth down one, and setteth up another,” and the psalmist promises praise while wicked horns are cut off and righteous horns exalted. Compare Proverbs and Jeremiah, which also use cups as symbols of divine recompense and poured-out fate to underscore moral causality under God’s rule.
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