Psalms 73:6

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Therefore, pride is their necklace; violence clothes them like a garment.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment; it seeped into his body like water, into his bones like oil.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 The weight of the gold earrings that Gideon had requested was seventeen hundred shekels, apart from the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple robes worn by the kings of Midian, and the chains on the necks of their camels.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they will be a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways.
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do evil.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have captivated my heart, my sister, my bride; you have captivated my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 the earrings, the bracelets, and the veils,
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 Moab has been at ease from her youth, settled on her dregs, not poured from vessel to vessel, nor gone into exile. Therefore her taste remains, and her aroma is unchanged.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard of Moab's pride—so very proud—his arrogance, pride, conceit, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your wrists and a necklace around your neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, 'This is what the Lord GOD says: Because your heart has grown proud, and you have said, “I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas,” but you are a man and not a god, though you have set your heart as if it were the heart of a god— 3 Indeed, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you. 4 By your wisdom and understanding, you have made wealth for yourself, and you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trading, you have increased your wealth, and your heart has grown proud because of your wealth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 Immediately, what was spoken about Nebuchadnezzar was fulfilled. He was driven away from people, ate grass like cattle, and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven until his hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a bird.
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise wickedness and plan evil on their beds! At dawn, they carry it out because they have the power to do it. 2 They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim peace when they have something to eat but prepare for war against those who do not feed them.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. 5 You have lived luxuriously on the earth and indulged yourselves. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, who does not resist you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these events, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and setting his position above all the officials who were with him.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay homage to him, he was filled with rage. 6 But he considered it beneath him to attack Mordecai alone, for they had told him about Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the kingdom of Ahasuerus, the people of Mordecai.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Haman went out that day joyful and with a glad heart. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate, who neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. He sent for his friends and his wife Zeresh. 11 Haman recounted to them the splendor of his wealth, the number of his sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the officials and servants of the king.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 Why do the wicked live on, grow old, and increase in power? 8 Their children are established in their presence, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their homes are safe from fear, and no rod of God is upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without failure; their cows give birth and do not miscarry. 11 They release their young like a flock, and their children skip about. 12 They sing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol. 14 Yet they say to God, 'Depart from us! We have no desire to know your ways.' 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we profit if we entreat him?
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my accusers be clothed with shame and wrapped in their disgrace as in a cloak.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh removed his signet ring from his hand and placed it on Joseph's hand. He clothed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 When your herds and flocks have multiplied, and your silver and gold have increased, and all that you have has multiplied, 14 then your heart may grow proud, and you might forget the Lord your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; you grew fat, thick, and bloated. Then he forsook the God who made him and treated with contempt the Rock of his salvation.

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  • Ps 73:7-9
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    7Their eyes bulge from fatness; their imaginations overflow with malice.

    8They scoff and speak with malice; with arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut through the earth.

  • Ps 73:3-5
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    3For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4They have no struggles; their bodies are healthy and strong.

    5They are free from common human burdens; they are not plagued by human ills.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They close up their hearts to compassion; they speak with arrogance.

    11They track my every step; they surround me and set their eyes to bring me down to the ground.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked; protect me from men of violence who plot to overthrow my steps.

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    18He clothed himself with cursing as with his garment; it seeped into his body like water, into his bones like oil.

    19May it be like a robe wrapped around him, like a belt tied around him always.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2In arrogance the wicked hotly pursue the afflicted; let them be caught in the schemes they have devised.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12Do not kill them, Lord, or my people will forget. Scatter them by your power and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6Why should I fear in evil days, when iniquity surrounds me, at my heels?

  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they will be a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10This will be their lot in return for their pride, because they have taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of Hosts.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Prepare chains, for the land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.

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

  • Isa 59:6
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    6Their webs will not become clothing, and they cannot cover themselves with their works. Their deeds are works of iniquity, and acts of violence are in their hands.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26Let those who rejoice at my distress be ashamed and disgraced together; let those who exalt themselves over me wear shame and dishonor.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies against them, and like Sodom, they openly declare their sin; they do not try to conceal it. Woe to them! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8If they are bound in chains and held captive by cords of suffering,

    9He declares to them their deeds and their transgressions, that they have acted proudly.

  • Ezek 23:15
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    15They were girded with belts at their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads. All of them looked like officers, resembling the men of Babylon, born in Chaldea.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

  • Job 30:18
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    18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me like the collar of my tunic.

  • Prov 10:6
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    6Blessings are on the head of the righteous, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked.

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27Like a cage full of birds, so their houses are full of deceit. Because of this, they have become great and rich.

    28They have grown fat and sleek. They excel in evil deeds; they do not defend the rights of the fatherless so they might prosper, nor do they uphold the cause of the needy.

  • Hos 7:2-3
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    2But they fail to consider in their hearts that I remember all their evil. Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.

    3They please the king with their evil and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9Do not grant the desires of the wicked, O LORD; do not let their plans succeed, lest they exalt themselves. Selah.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5The Lord detests all who are proud in heart; be sure of this, they will not go unpunished.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3Their hands are skilled at doing evil: the ruler demands gifts, the judge accepts bribes, and the powerful speak out their selfish desires. Together they weave a web of corrupt schemes.

  • Job 40:11
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    11Scatter the outbursts of your anger, and look at every proud one and bring him low.

  • Job 38:15
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    15The light is withheld from the wicked, and the uplifted arm is broken.

  • Ps 149:8
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    8to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with iron shackles,

  • Mic 6:12
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    12Her rich men are full of violence; her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongues are deceitful in their mouths.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They covet fields and seize them; they take houses and rob them. They oppress a man and his house, a person and their inheritance.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7The more they increased, the more they sinned against me. I will turn their glory into shame.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6A man will seize his brother in his father’s house, saying, 'You have a cloak, you be our leader; take charge of this ruin!'

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.

  • Lam 3:7
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    7He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed down my chains.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12Behold, these are the wicked—always carefree, they increase in wealth.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9"This is what the LORD says: 'In this way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23A man's pride will bring him low, but a humble spirit will obtain honor.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood and sin as if with cart ropes!

  • Job 36:13
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    13The godless in heart harbor anger; they do not cry for help even when He binds them.