Psalms 73:6

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have taken away my heart, my sister, my bride; you have taken away my heart, with one look you have taken it, with one chain of your neck!
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 From his earliest days, Moab has been living in comfort; like wine long stored he has not been drained from vessel to vessel, he has never gone away as a prisoner: so his taste is still in him, his smell is unchanged.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have had word of the pride of Moab, how great it is; how he is lifted up in pride; and his great opinion of himself, and that his heart is lifted up.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God: 3 See, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret which is deeper than your knowledge: 4 By your wisdom and deep knowledge you have got power for yourself, and put silver and gold in your store-houses: 5 By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king made answer and said, Is this not great Babylon, which I have made for the living-place of kings, by the strength of my power and for the glory of my honour?
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power. 2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies. 5 You have been living delicately on earth and have taken your pleasure; you have made your hearts fat for a day of destruction. 6 You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 And in the same way, let the younger men be ruled by the older ones. Let all of you put away pride and make yourselves ready to be servants: for God is a hater of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these things, by the order of the king, Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, was lifted up and given a position of honour and a higher place than all the other captains who were with him.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not go down before him and give him honour, Haman was full of wrath. 6 But it was not enough for him to make an attack on Mordecai only; for they had made clear to him who Mordecai's people were; so Haman made it his purpose to put an end to all the Jews, even Mordecai's people, through all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Then on that day Haman went out full of joy and glad in heart; but when he saw Mordecai in the king's doorway, and he did not get to his feet or give any sign of fear before him, Haman was full of wrath against Mordecai. 10 But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife. 11 And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power? 8 Their children are ever with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are free from fear, and the rod of God does not come on them. 10 Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young. 11 They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance, 12 They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe. 13 Their days come to an end without trouble, and suddenly they go down to the underworld. 14 Though they said to God, Go away from us, for we have no desire for the knowledge of your ways. 15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my haters be clothed with shame, covering themselves with shame as with a robe.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.

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    7 Their eyes are bursting with fat; they have more than their heart's desire.

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  • Ps 73:3-5
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    3 Because of my envy of the men of pride, when I saw the well-being of the wrongdoers.

    4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

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  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10 They are shut up in their fat: with their mouths they say words of pride.

    11 They have made a circle round our steps: their eyes are fixed on us, forcing us down to the earth;

  • Ps 140:5
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    5 The men of pride have put secret cords for my feet; stretching nets in my way, so that they may take me with their tricks. (Selah.)

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    18 He put on cursing like a robe, and it has come into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

    19 Let it be to him as a robe which he puts on, let it be like a band which is round him at all times.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2 The evil-doer in his pride is cruel to the poor; let him be taken by the tricks of his invention.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 Because of the sin of their mouths and the word of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride; and for their curses and their deceit,

  • Ps 49:6
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    6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

  • Prov 1:9
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    9 For they will be a crown of grace for your head, and chain-ornaments about your neck.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10 This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23 Make the chain: for the land is full of crimes of blood, and the town is full of violent acts.

  • Prov 16:18
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    18 Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.

  • Isa 59:6
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    6 Their twisted threads will not make clothing, and their works will give them nothing for covering themselves: their works are works of sin, and violent acts are in their hands.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26 Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8 And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,

    9 Then he makes clear to them what they have done, even their evil works in which they have taken pride.

  • Ezek 23:15
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    15 With bands round their bodies and with head-dresses hanging round their heads, all of them looking like rulers, like the Babylonians, the land of whose birth is Chaldaea.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18 And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

  • Job 30:18
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    18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

  • Prov 10:6
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    6 Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27 As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

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    2 And they do not say to themselves that I keep in mind all their sin; now their evil acts come round them on every side; they are before my face.

    3 In their sin they make a king for themselves, and rulers in their deceit.

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    9 As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

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    5 Everyone who has pride in his heart is disgusting to the Lord: he will certainly not go free from punishment.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

  • Job 40:11
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    11 His strength is in his body, and his force in the muscles of his stomach.

  • Job 38:15
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    15 And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

  • Ps 149:8
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    8 To put their kings in chains, and their rulers in bands of iron;

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 For its men of wealth are cruel, and its people have said what is not true, and their tongue is false in their mouth.

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    2 They have a desire for fields and take them by force; and for houses and take them away: they are cruel to a man and his family, even to a man and his heritage.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17 The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7 Even while they were increasing in number they were sinning against me; I will let their glory be changed into shame.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6 When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

  • Lam 3:7
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    7 He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9 The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18 Cursed are those who make use of ox-cords for pulling the evil thing, and the bands of a young ox for their sin!

  • Job 36:13
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    13 Those who have no fear of God keep wrath stored up in their hearts; they give no cry for help when they are made prisoners.