| Geneva Study Bible Lift not up your {e} horn on high: speak not with a stiff neck. (e) The prophet warns the wicked that they would not set themselves against God's people, seeing that God at his time destroys them who rule wickedly. Wesley's Notes 75:5 Lift not - A metaphor from untamed oxen, which will not bow their heads to receive the yoke. Stiff neck - With pride and contempt. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 5. speak . neck-insolently. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 75:1-5 We often pray for mercy, when in pursuit of it; and shall we only once or twice give thanks, when we obtain it? God shows that he is nigh to us in what we call upon him for. Public trusts are to be managed uprightly. This may well be applied to Christ and his government. Man's sin threatened to destroy the whole creation; but Christ saved the world from utter ruin. He who is made of God to us wisdom, bids us be wise. To the proud, daring sinners he says, Boast not of your power, persist not in contempt. All the present hopes and future happiness of the human race spring from the Son of God. | 
