Psalms 75:10

All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off; [but] the horns of the righteous shall be exalted.

Ver. 10. All the horns of the wicked also will I cut off] By promising the due administration of vindictive and remunerative justice, he seeks to insinuate into the people's affections, who, after Isbosheth's death, came in to make him king.

But the horns of the righteous shall be exalted] Dignity shall wait upon desert, which shall cause it again to be waited upon by respect. Thus it should be in the courts of all princes. In Cyrus's court, though a man should seek or choose blindfold, he could not miss of a good man, saith Xenophon (Cyropaed. l. 8).