Psalms 75:4

"I said unto the arrogant,

Deal not arrogantly;

And to the wicked, Lift not up the horn:

Lift not up your horn on high;

Speak not with a stiff neck.

For neither from the east, nor from the west,

Nor yet from the south, cometh lifting up."

Some interpreters ascribe the words of these verses to the psalmist, or to the "congregation," but we believe Delitzsch is correct. "The utterance of God is also continued after the Selah. It is not the people of God who turn to the enemies with words of warning; it is God himself who speaks."[10]

"Lift not up the horn" (Psalms 75:4). This means that, "One should not vaunt his own powers."[11] Rawlinson gave the meaning as, "Be not fierce and menacing like a bull threatening with his horns."[12]

"Neither from east ... west ... south ... cometh lifting up" (Psalms 75:6). The significance of the omission of "north" here lies in the fact that, "Foreign invasions of Israel generally came from the north; and deliverance would logically have been expected from some other direction."[13]

McCaw suggested that this affords presumptive evidence that the threatened destruction of Jerusalem by Sennacherib might have been the occasion.[14]