Psalms 73:6

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Envy thou not the man of violence, And choose none of his ways.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, [my] bride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 the pendants, and the bracelets, and the mufflers;
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remaineth in him, and his scent is not changed.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard of the pride of Moab, [that] he is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogancy, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;-- 3 behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from thee; 4 by thy wisdom and by thine understanding thou hast gotten thee riches, and hast gotten gold and silver into thy treasures; 5 by thy great wisdom [and] by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;--
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spake and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling-place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to them that devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth. 5 Ye have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure; ye have nourished your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 Ye have condemned, ye have killed the righteous [one] ; he doth not resist you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, ye younger, be subject unto the elder. Yea, all of you gird yourselves with humility, to serve one another: for God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not down, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath. 6 But he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had made known to him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Then went Haman forth that day joyful and glad of heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up nor moved for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless Haman refrained himself, and went home; and he sent and fetched his friends and Zeresh his wife. 11 And Haman recounted unto them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established with them in their sight, And their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, Neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; Their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance. 12 They sing to the timbrel and harp, And rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, And in a moment they go down to Sheol. 14 And they say unto God, Depart from us; For we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let mine adversaries be clothed with dishonor, And let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 and when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; 14 then thy heart be lifted up, and thou forget Jehovah thy God, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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    7Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.

    8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

    9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • Ps 73:3-5
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    3For I was envious at the arrogant, When I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4For there are no pangs in their death; But their strength is firm.

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  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are inclosed in their own fat: With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

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    5The proud have hid a snare for me, and cords; They have spread a net by the wayside; They have set gins for me. {{Selah

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment, And it came into his inward parts like water, And like oil into his bones.

    19Let it be unto him as the raiment wherewith he covereth himself, And for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2In the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.

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    12[ For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the words of their lips, Let them even be taken in their pride, And for cursing and lying which they speak.

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  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they shall be a chaplet of grace unto thy head, And chains about thy neck.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Make the chain; for the land is full of bloody crimes, and the city is full of violence.

  • Prov 16:18
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    18Pride [goeth] before destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

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    6Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26Let them be put to shame and confounded together that rejoice at my hurt: Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor that magnify themselves against me.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of afflictions;

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  • Ezek 23:15
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    15girded with girdles upon their loins, with flowing turbans upon their heads, all of them princes to look upon, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their nativity.

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    34He beholdeth everything that is high: He is king over all the sons of pride.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

  • Job 30:18
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    18By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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    6Blessings are upon the head of the righteous; But violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

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    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxed rich.

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    2And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

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    9As for the head of those that compass me about, Let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

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    5Every one that is proud in heart is an abomination to Jehovah: [Though] hand [join] in hand, he shall not be unpunished.

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    3Their hands are upon that which is evil to do it diligently; the prince asketh, and the judge [is ready] for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth the evil desire of his soul: thus they weave it together.

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    11Pour forth the overflowings of thine anger; And look upon every one that is proud, and abase him.

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    15And from the wicked their light is withholden, And the high arm is broken.

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    8To bind their kings with chains, And their nobles with fetters of iron;

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    12For the rich men thereof are full of violence, and the inhabitants thereof have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

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  • Prov 4:17
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    17For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

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    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: I will change their glory into shame.

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    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, [saying], Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand;

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    10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

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    7He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

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    12Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.

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    9Thus saith Jehovah, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

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    23A man's pride shall bring him low; But he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

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    18Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and sin as it were with a cart rope;

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    13But they that are godless in heart lay up anger: They cry not for help when he bindeth them.