Psalms 73:6

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Arrogance is their necklace, and violence covers them like clothing.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 The total weight of the gold earrings he requested came to seventeen hundred gold shekels. This was in addition to the crescent-shaped ornaments, jewelry, purple clothing worn by the Midianite kings, and the necklaces on the camels.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Do not envy a violent man, and do not choose any of his ways;
  • Prov 4:17 : 17 Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.
  • Eccl 8:11 : 11 When a sentence is not executed at once against a crime, the human heart is encouraged to do evil.
  • Song 4:9 : 9 You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride! You have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 earrings, bracelets, veils,
  • Jer 48:11 : 11 “From its earliest days Moab has lived undisturbed. It has never been taken into exile. Its people are like wine allowed to settle undisturbed on its dregs, never poured out from one jar to another. They are like wine which tastes like it always did, whose aroma has remained unchanged.
  • Jer 48:29 : 29 I have heard how proud the people of Moab are, I know how haughty they are. I have heard how arrogant, proud, and haughty they are, what a high opinion they have of themselves.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 I adorned you with jewelry. I put bracelets on your hands and a necklace around your neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 “Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre,‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says:“‘Your heart is proud and you said,“I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas”– yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike. 3 Look, you are wiser than Daniel; no secret is hidden from you. 4 By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself; you have amassed gold and silver in your treasuries. 5 By your great skill in trade you have increased your wealth, and your heart is proud because of your wealth.
  • Dan 4:30 : 30 The king uttered these words:“Is this not the great Babylon that I have built for a royal residence by my own mighty strength and for my majestic honor?”
  • Mic 2:1-2 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so. 2 They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.
  • Mic 3:5 : 5 This is what the LORD has said about the prophets who mislead my people,“If someone gives them enough to eat, they offer an oracle of peace. But if someone does not give them food, they are ready to declare war on him.
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Look, the pay you have held back from the workers who mowed your fields cries out against you, and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Heaven’s Armies. 5 You have lived indulgently and luxuriously on the earth. You have fattened your hearts in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned and murdered the righteous person, although he does not resist you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 In the same way, you who are younger, be subject to the elders. And 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 Haman Conspires to Destroy the Jews Some time later King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, exalting him and setting his position above that of all the officials who were with him.
  • Esth 3:5-6 : 5 When Haman saw that Mordecai was not bowing or paying homage to him, he was filled with rage. 6 But the thought of striking out against Mordecai alone was repugnant to him, for he had been informed of the identity of Mordecai’s people. So Haman sought to destroy all the Jews(that is, the people of Mordecai) who were in all the kingdom of Ahasuerus.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Haman Expresses His Hatred of Mordecai Now Haman went forth that day pleased and very much encouraged. But when Haman saw Mordecai at the king’s gate, and he did not rise nor tremble in his presence, Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. 10 But Haman restrained himself and went on to his home.He then sent for his friends to join him, along with his wife Zeresh. 11 Haman then recounted to them his fabulous wealth, his many sons, and how the king had magnified him and exalted him over the king’s other officials and servants.
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 The Wicked Prosper“Why do the wicked go on living, grow old, even increase in power? 8 Their children are firmly established in their presence, their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe and without fear; and no rod of punishment from God is upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without fail; their cows calve and do not miscarry. 11 They allow their children to run like a flock; their little ones dance about. 12 They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute. 13 They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace. 14 So they say to God,‘Turn away from us! We do not want to know your ways. 15 Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain if we were to pray to him?’
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 My accusers will be covered with shame, and draped in humiliation as if it were a robe.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his own hand and put it on Joseph’s. He clothed him with fine linen clothes and put a gold chain around his neck.
  • Deut 8:13-14 : 13 when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything, 14 be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the LORD your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 Israel’s Rebellion But Jeshurun became fat and kicked, you got fat, thick, and stuffed! Then he deserted the God who made him, and treated the Rock who saved him with contempt.

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  • Ps 73:7-9
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    7Their prosperity causes them to do wrong; their thoughts are sinful.

    8They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

    9They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.

  • Ps 73:3-5
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    3For I envied those who are proud, as I observed the prosperity of the wicked.

    4For they suffer no pain; their bodies are strong and well-fed.

    5They are immune to the trouble common to men; they do not suffer as other men do.

  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10They are calloused; they speak arrogantly.

    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Ps 140:5
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    5Proud men hide a snare for me; evil men spread a net by the path; they set traps for me.(Selah)

  • Ps 109:18-19
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    18He made cursing a way of life, so curses poured into his stomach like water and seeped into his bones like oil.

    19May a curse attach itself to him, like a garment one puts on, or a belt one wears continually!

  • Ps 10:2
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    2The wicked arrogantly chase the oppressed; the oppressed are trapped by the schemes the wicked have dreamed up.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12They speak sinful words. So let them be trapped by their own pride and by the curses and lies they speak!

  • Ps 49:6
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    6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

  • Prov 1:9
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    9For they will be like an elegant garland on your head, and like pendants around your neck.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10This is how they will be repaid for their arrogance, for they taunted and verbally harassed the people of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Ezek 7:23
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    23(Make the chain, because the land is full of murder 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 cannot be used for clothing; they cannot cover themselves with what they make. Their deeds are sinful; they commit violent crimes.

  • Ps 35:26
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    26May those who rejoice in my troubles be totally embarrassed and ashamed! May those who arrogantly taunt me be covered with shame and humiliation!

  • Isa 3:9
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    9The look on their faces testifies to their guilt; like the people of Sodom they openly boast of their sin. Woe to them! For they bring disaster on themselves.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8But if they are bound in chains, and held captive by the cords of affliction,

    9then he reveals to them what they have done, and their transgressions, that they were behaving proudly.

  • Ezek 23:15
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    15wearing belts on their waists and flowing turbans on their heads, all of them looking like officers, the image of Babylonians whose native land is Chaldea.

  • Job 41:34
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    34It looks on every haughty being; it is king over all that are proud.”

  • Ezek 7:18
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    18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.

  • Job 30:18
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    18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

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

  • Jer 5:27-28
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    27Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

    28That is how they have grown fat and sleek. There is no limit to the evil things they do. They do not plead the cause of the fatherless in such a way as to win it. They do not defend the rights of the poor.

  • Hos 7:2-3
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    2They do not realize that I remember all of their wicked deeds. Their evil deeds have now surrounded them; their sinful deeds are always before me.

    3Political Intrigue and Conspiracy in the Palace The royal advisers delight the king with their evil schemes, the princes make him glad with their lies.

  • Ps 140:9
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    9As for the heads of those who surround me– may the harm done by their lips overwhelm them!

  • Prov 16:5
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    5The LORD abhors every arrogant person; rest assured that they will not go unpunished.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3They are experts at doing evil; government officials and judges take bribes, prominent men announce what they wish and then they plan it out.

  • Job 40:11
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    11Scatter abroad the abundance of your anger. Look at every proud man and bring him low;

  • Job 38:15
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    15Then from the wicked the light is withheld, and the arm raised in violence is broken.

  • Ps 149:8
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    8They bind their kings in chains, and their nobles in iron shackles,

  • Mic 6:12
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    12The city’s wealthy people readily resort to violence; her inhabitants tell lies, their tongues speak deceptive words.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2They confiscate the fields they desire, and seize the houses they want. They defraud people of their homes, and deprive people of the land they have inherited.

  • Prov 4:17
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    17Indeed they have eaten bread gained from wickedness and drink wine obtained from violence.

  • Hos 4:7
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    7The more the priests increased in numbers, the more they rebelled against me. They have turned their glorious calling into a shameful disgrace!

  • Isa 3:6
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    6Indeed, a man will grab his brother right in his father’s house and say,‘You own a coat– you be our leader! This heap of ruins will be under your control.’

  • Nah 1:10
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    10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.

  • Lam 3:7
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    7ג(Gimel) He has walled me in so that I cannot get out; he has weighted me down with heavy prison chains.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12Take a good look! This is what the wicked are like, those who always have it so easy and get richer and richer.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9“I, the LORD, say:‘This shows how I will ruin the highly exalted position in which Judah and Jerusalem take pride.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23A person’s pride will bring him low, but one who has a lowly spirit will gain honor.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18Beware, those who pull evil along using cords of emptiness are as good as dead, who pull sin as with cart ropes.

  • Job 36:13
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    13The godless at heart nourish anger, they do not cry out even when he binds them.