5 Don’t raise your fists in defiance at the heavensor speak with such arrogance.’”
6 For no one on earth—from east or west,or even from the wilderness—should raise a defiant fist.
7 It is God alone who judges;he decides who will rise and who will fall.
8 For the lord holds a cup in his handthat is full of foaming wine mixed with spices.He pours out the wine in judgment,and all the wicked must drink it,draining it to the dregs.
9 But as for me, I will always proclaim what God has done;I will sing praises to the God of Jacob.
10 For God says, “I will break the strength of the wicked,but I will increase the power of the godly.”