Psalms 73:6

KJV1611 – Modern English

Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides ornaments, and pendants, and purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were on their camels' necks.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Do not envy the oppressor, 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 the sentence against an evil work is not executed quickly, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; you have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 The chains, the bracelets, and the veils,
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, nor has he gone into captivity; therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is unchanged.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 We have heard the pride of Moab (he is exceedingly proud), his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 I adorned you also with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord GOD; Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a God, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet you are a man and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God: 3 Behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from you: 4 With your wisdom and with your understanding you have gained riches for yourself, and gathered gold and silver into your treasures: 5 By your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches:
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for a royal residence, by the might of my power and for the honor of my majesty?
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil upon their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it because it is in the power of their hand. 2 They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 Thus says the LORD concerning the prophets who make my people err, who bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that puts not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who have reaped down your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of those who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of hosts. 5 You have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been indulgent; you have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject to one another, and be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.
  • Esth 3:1 : 1 After these things, King Ahasuerus promoted Haman, the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 And when Haman saw that Mordecai did not bow nor show him reverence, then Haman was full of wrath. 6 And he thought it scornful to lay hands on Mordecai alone, for they had shown him the people of Mordecai. Therefore, Haman sought to destroy all the Jews throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Then Haman went forth that day joyful and with a glad heart. But when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he did not stand up nor move for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh, his wife. 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, 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 Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, grow mighty in power? 8 Their descendants are established with them in their sight, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, nor is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull breeds and does not fail; their cow calves and does not miscarry. 11 They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute. 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say to God, 'Depart from us, for we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.' 15 Who is the Almighty that we should serve Him? And what profit do we have if we pray to Him?
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a cloak.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand; and he dressed him in garments of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck.
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 And when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied; 14 Then your heart be lifted up, and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked: you have grown fat, you have grown thick, you are covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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  • Ps 73:7-9
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    7Their eyes bulge with abundance; they have more than heart could wish.

    8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly of oppression; they speak loftily.

    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.

  • Ps 73:3-5
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    3For I was envious of the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    4For there are no pains in their death; but their strength is firm.

    5They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are enclosed in their own fat; with their mouth they speak proudly.

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net by the wayside; they have set traps for me. Selah.

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    18As he clothed himself with cursing as with a garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.

    19Let it be to him as the garment that covers him, and as a belt with which he is girded continually.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked in his pride persecutes the poor; let them be caught in the devices they have imagined.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12For the sin of their mouth and the words of their lips, let them even be taken in their pride, and for the cursing and lying which they speak.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they shall be a graceful ornament on your head and chains about your neck.

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

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23Make a chain, for the land is full of bloody crimes 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 garments, nor will 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 ashamed and brought to confusion 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 look on their faces testifies against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they do not hide it. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8And if they are bound in chains, and held in cords of affliction;

    9Then he shows them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

  • Ezek 23:15
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    15Girded with sashes upon their loins, excellently attired upon their heads, all of them looking like princes, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:

  • Job 41:34
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    34He beholds all high things; he is a king over all the children of pride.

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They shall also clothe 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 the great force of my disease my garment is changed: it binds me about like the collar of my coat.

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

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they have become great, and grown rich.

    28They have grown fat, they shine: yes, they surpass the deeds of the wicked: they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy they do not judge.

  • Hos 7:2-3
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    2And they do not consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now their own actions have surrounded them; they are before my face.

    3They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the head of those who surround me, let the mischief of their own lips cover them.

  • Prov 16:5
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    5Everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination to the LORD: though they join hand in hand, they shall not go unpunished.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asks, and the judge asks for a reward; and the great man utters his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.

  • Job 40:11
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    11Cast afar the rage of your wrath; and behold everyone that is proud, and abase him.

  • Job 38:15
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    15And from the wicked their light is withheld, and the upraised arm is broken.

  • Ps 149:8
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    8To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

  • Mic 6:12
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    12For the rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants have spoken lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their mouth.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They covet fields and take them by violence, and houses, and take them away; so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

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

  • Hos 4:7
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    7As they were multiplied, so they sinned against me: therefore I will turn their glory into shame.

  • Isa 3:6
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    6When a man shall take hold of his brother in his father’s house, saying, You have clothing, be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand:

  • Nah 1:10
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    10For while they are entangled like thorns and while they are drunken like drunkards, they shall be devoured as fully dry stubble.

  • Lam 3:7
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    7He has hedged me in so I cannot get out; He has made my chain heavy.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12Behold, these are the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase in riches.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9Thus says the LORD, After this manner will I mar 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 honor shall uphold the humble in spirit.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of vanity, and sin as if with a cart rope:

  • Job 36:13
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    13But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they do not cry out when he binds them.