Psalm 75:7
New International Version
It is God who judges: He brings one down, he exalts another.

New Living Translation
It is God alone who judges; he decides who will rise and who will fall.

English Standard Version
but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

Berean Standard Bible
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

King James Bible
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

New King James Version
But God is the Judge: He puts down one, And exalts another.

New American Standard Bible
But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.

NASB 1995
But God is the Judge; He puts down one and exalts another.

NASB 1977
But God is the Judge; He puts down one, and exalts another.

Legacy Standard Bible
But God is the Judge; He puts down one and raises up another.

Amplified Bible
But God is the Judge; He puts down one and lifts up another.

Christian Standard Bible
for God is the Judge: He brings down one and exalts another.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
for God is the Judge: He brings down one and exalts another.

American Standard Version
But God is the judge: He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because God is the Judge; he brings down this one and he raises that one.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For God is the judge; he puts down one, and raises up another.

Contemporary English Version
You are the one who judges. You can take away power and give it to others.

Douay-Rheims Bible
for God is the judge. One he putteth down, and another he lifteth up:

English Revised Version
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
God alone is the judge. He punishes one person and rewards another.

Good News Translation
it is God who is the judge, condemning some and acquitting others.

International Standard Version
since God is the judge. This one he will debase or that one he will exalt.

JPS Tanakh 1917
For God is judge; He putteth down one, and lifteth up another.

Literal Standard Version
But God [is] judging, | This He makes low—and this He lifts up.

Majority Standard Bible
but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another.

New American Bible
But from God who decides, who brings some low and raises others high.

NET Bible
For God is the judge! He brings one down and exalts another.

New Revised Standard Version
but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.

New Heart English Bible
But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Webster's Bible Translation
But God is the judge: he putteth down one, and setteth up another.

World English Bible
But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.

Young's Literal Translation
But God is judge, This He maketh low -- and this He lifteth up.

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Context
We Give Thanks, for Your Name is Near
6For exaltation comes neither from east nor west, nor out of the desert, 7but it is God who judges; He brings down one and exalts another. 8For a cup is in the hand of the LORD, full of foaming wine mixed with spices. He pours from His cup, and all the wicked of the earth drink it down to the dregs.…

Cross References
1 Samuel 2:7
The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts.

1 Samuel 2:8
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap. He seats them among princes and bestows on them a throne of honor. For the foundations of the earth are the LORD's, and upon them He has set the world.

Psalm 50:6
And the heavens proclaim His righteousness, for God Himself is Judge. Selah

Psalm 58:11
Then men will say, "There is surely a reward for the righteous! There is surely a God who judges the earth!"

Psalm 147:6
The LORD sustains the humble, but casts the wicked to the ground.

Ezekiel 21:26
This is what the Lord GOD says: 'Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.

Daniel 2:21
He changes the times and seasons; He removes kings and establishes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning.


Treasury of Scripture

But God is the judge: he puts down one, and sets up another.

God

Psalm 50:6
And the heavens shall declare his righteousness: for God is judge himself. Selah.

Psalm 58:11
So that a man shall say, Verily there is a reward for the righteous: verily he is a God that judgeth in the earth.

he putteth

Psalm 113:7,8
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth the needy out of the dunghill; …

1 Samuel 2:7,8
The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: he bringeth low, and lifteth up…

1 Samuel 15:23,28
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the word of the LORD, he hath also rejected thee from being king…

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Psalm 75
1. The prophet praises God
2. He promises to judge uprightly
4. He rebukes the proud by consideration of God's providence
9. He praises God, and promises to execute justice.














Verse 7. - But God is the Judge (comp. Psalm 50:6; Psalm 82:1; Psalm 94:2; and, especially, the original of all the later passages, Genesis 18:25). He putteth down one, and setteth up (or, exalteth) another (comp. 1 Samuel 2:7; Daniel 2:21; Daniel 4:17). True equally of nations and of individuals.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
but
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

it is God
אֱלֹהִ֥ים (’ĕ·lō·hîm)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative

who judges;
שֹׁפֵ֑ט (šō·p̄êṭ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 8199: To judge, pronounce sentence, to vindicate, punish, to govern, to litigate

He brings one down
יַ֝שְׁפִּ֗יל (yaš·pîl)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 8213: To be or become low, to be abased

and exalts
יָרִֽים׃ (yā·rîm)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 7311: To be high actively, to rise, raise

another.
וְזֶ֣ה (wə·zeh)
Conjunctive waw | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's 2088: This, that


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