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Psalm 75:5

Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”

3The earth and all its inhabitants quake. I firmly hold its pillars. Selah.
4I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
5Don’t lift up your horn on high. Don’t speak with a stiff neck.”
6For neither from the east, nor from the west, nor yet from the south, comes exaltation.
7But God is the judge. He puts down one, and lifts up another.
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The raised horn and stiff neck picture strength turned into boasting, with speech that refuses to bend before God’s judgment.

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Isaiah 48:4Because I knew that you are obstinate, and your neck is an iron sinew, and your brow bronze;The psalm’s stiff neck and Isaiah’s neck of iron both picture stubbornness through a body that refuses to bend.
Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.Both use the stiff neck as an image of defiance; Acts names that defiance as resistance to the Holy Spirit.
2 Chronicles 30:8Now don’t be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD, and enter into his sanctuary, which he has sanctified forever, and serve the …Both warn against being stiff-necked, while Chronicles spells out the response: yield to the LORD and serve him.
Lamentations 2:3He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, …Both use the horn as an image of strength: the psalm forbids raising it, while Lamentations describes Israel’s horn cut off in anger.
Job 16:15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, and have thrust my horn in the dust.The lifted horn in the psalm contrasts with Job’s horn in the dust, where sackcloth marks his grief.
Ezekiel 2:4The children are impudent and stiff-hearted. I am sending you to them, and you shall tell them, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says.’The psalm’s stiff neck and Ezekiel’s stiff heart both portray defiance among those receiving a rebuke.
Deuteronomy 31:27For I know your rebellion and your stiff neck. Behold, while I am yet alive with you today, you have been rebellious against the LORD. How much more after my …Both connect the stiff neck with defiance against God; Deuteronomy names it alongside rebellion against the LORD.
Exodus 32:9The LORD said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.Both portray defiance through a stiff neck, with Exodus applying the image to the people God describes to Moses.
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Boasting cannot secure your standing before God. The warning has weight because the judge is God himself, who puts down one and lifts up another.

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