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Thanksgiving for God’s Righteous Judgment

To the Chief Musician. Set to “Do Not Destroy.” A Psalm of Asaph. A Song.
  1We give thanks to You, O God, we give thanks!
   For Your wondrous works declare that Your name is near.
  2“When I choose the proper time,
   I will judge uprightly.
   3The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolved;
   I set up its pillars firmly.
Selah
  4“I said to the boastful, ‘Do not deal boastfully,’
   And to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up the horn.
   5Do not lift up your horn on high;
   Do not speak with a stiff neck.’ ”
  6For exaltation comes neither from the east
   Nor from the west nor from the south.
   7But God is the Judge:
   He puts down one,
   And exalts another.
   8For in the hand of the Lordthere is a cup,
   And the wine is red;
   It is fully mixed, and He pours it out;
   Surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth
   Drain and drink down.
  9But I will declare forever,
   I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
  10“All the horns of the wicked I will also cut off,
   Butthe horns of the righteous shall be exalted.”