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Salmos 75

VBL · Chapter 75/150

1Para el director del coro. Un Salmo de Asaf. Según la canción “No destruyas”. Una canción. Te agradecemos, oh Dios, porque estás junto a nosotros. Toda la gente habla sobre tus maravillas.

2Dios dice: “Cuando decida el momento, juzgaré con justicia.

3Cuando la tierra tiemble, así como sus habitantes, yo la mantendré firme. Selah.

4A los que se jactan dije: ‘¡No se jacten!’ Le dije a los malvados: ‘¡Dejen el orgullo!’

5No, no sean arrogantes y orgullosos, insultando al cielo”.

6Porque nadie, ni en el este o en el oeste, o incluso en el desierto debe pensar de sí mismo con justicia.

7Dios es el que decide quién se levantará y quién caerá.

8Porque el Señor tiene una copa en su mano, llena de vino espumoso mezclado con especias. Él vierte el vino, y todos los malvados lo beberán, hasta la última gota.

9Pero yo hablaré de ti para siempre. Cantaré alabanzas al Dios de Jacob.

10Porque Dios dice: “Quebraré el poder de los malvados, pero aumentaré el poder de los justos”.

📖 Chapter study

Summary

Asaph declares that God is the judge who decides when to act, warning the arrogant not to exalt themselves, for exaltation comes not from the east, the west, or the desert, but from God alone, who brings down one and lifts up another.

Explanation

This psalm uses the image of a 'cup' of mixed wine that God offers the wicked to drink down to the dregs — a common metaphor in prophetic texts for describing divine judgment as inevitable for those who persist in wickedness (an image later taken up in Isaiah 51:17 and Revelation 14:10). The statement that exaltation comes from no human geographic direction, but from God alone, is an important reminder against the arrogance of those who attribute their own success solely to personal merit or effort. Today's application: recognizing that positions of honor and success ultimately depend on a sovereignty greater than human effort, which should produce humility, not arrogance.

Fun facts

  • The image of the 'cup' of divine judgment mixed with wine (v. 8) is taken up in several later prophetic texts, including Isaiah 51:17 and Jeremiah 25:15, and, in the New Testament, Revelation 14:10, showing the continuity of this metaphor throughout the whole Bible.
  • This psalm is attributed to Asaph and continues the reflection on divine justice found in Psalm 73, suggesting that the psalms of Asaph (50, 73-83) form a coherent thematic block within the Psalter, with a recurring focus on justice and judgment.

Verse-by-verse explanation

  1. Salmos 75:1The opening praise is not generic: it says God’s name “is near” because His recent wondrous works prove it — the closeness is shown in deeds, not in theory.
  2. Salmos 75:2In these verses the speaker is no longer the people, but God Himself, quoted in direct speech: He announces that He has a set time, chosen by Him, to judge with righteousness.
  3. Salmos 75:3Still in God’s voice, the image of pillars comes from the ancient idea that the earth was held up on columns amid the waters of chaos. “Selah” here probably marks a musical or liturgical pause whose meaning is now uncertain.
  4. Salmos 75:4“Lift not up the horn” translates a Hebrew expression about raising a horn — in animals, a raised horn is a sign of strength and threat, so the image became a way of speaking about arrogance and a display of power.
  5. Salmos 75:5“A stiff neck” is a Hebrew expression for stubbornness and arrogance — the image of a rigid neck that refuses to bend, used in other Old Testament texts to describe resistance to correction.
  6. Salmos 75:6It lists east, west, and the wilderness (associated with the south) as the directions from which promotion does NOT come — a poetic way of saying that no point on the human map grants power or status: only God decides that.
  7. Salmos 75:7It sums up the psalm’s argument in one direct sentence: it is God alone who “putteth down one, and setteth up another,” no matter how much power someone seems to have.
  8. Salmos 75:8It describes the “cup” of God’s wrath, a recurring Old Testament image in which divine judgment is like a bitter drink the guilty are forced to drink to the last drop, including “the dregs thereof” at the bottom of the cup.
  9. Salmos 75:9“The God of Jacob” is a title that ties the promise of praise to the ancient covenant with the patriarch — singing to this specific God, not to just any deity.
  10. Salmos 75:10“Horns” here translates the same kind of raised-horn image used earlier in the psalm: cutting off the horns of the wicked and exalting those of the righteous means the power of some will fall while that of others will be acknowledged.

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