Psalms 73:6

World English Bible (2000)

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

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  • Ps 109:18 : 18 He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
  • Judg 8:26 : 26 The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred [shekels] of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
  • Prov 1:9 : 9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
  • Prov 3:31 : 31 Don't envy the man of violence. 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 You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
  • Isa 3:19 : 19 the earrings, the bracelets, 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, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains 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 arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
  • Ezek 16:11 : 11 I decked you with ornaments, and I put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
  • Ezek 28:2-5 : 2 Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: 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 man, and not God, though you did set your heart as the heart of God-- 3 behold, you are wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that is hidden from you; 4 by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures; 5 by your great wisdom [and] by your traffic 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, 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 those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 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 says Yahweh concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, "Peace!" and whoever doesn't provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
  • Jas 5:4-6 : 4 Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies. 5 You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the righteous one. He doesn't resist you.
  • 1 Pet 5:5 : 5 Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for "God resists the proud, but 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 When Haman saw that Mordecai didn't bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath. 6 But he scorned the thought of laying hands on Mordecai alone, for they had made known to him Mordecai's people. Therefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews who were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even Mordecai's people.
  • Esth 5:9-9 : 9 Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he didn't stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai. 10 Nevertheless Haman restrained himself, and went home. There, he sent and called for his friends and Zeresh his wife. 11 Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which 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, and grow mighty in power? 8 Their child is established with them in their sight, their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses are safe from fear, neither is the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bulls breed without fail. Their cows calve, and don't miscarry. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. 12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe. 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol. 14 They tell God, 'Depart from us, for we don't want to know about your ways. 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What profit should we have, if we pray to him?'
  • Ps 109:29 : 29 Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
  • Gen 41:42 : 42 Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about 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 Yahweh your God, who brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage;
  • Deut 32:15 : 15 But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

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    7 Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

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

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

    4 For there are no struggles in their death, but their strength is firm.

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  • Ps 17:10-11
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    10 They close up their callous hearts. With their mouth they speak proudly.

    11 They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

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

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

    19 Let it be to him as the clothing with which he covers himself, for the belt that is always around him.

  • Ps 10:2
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    2 In arrogance, the wicked hunt down the weak. They are caught in the schemes that they devise.

  • Ps 59:12
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    12 For the sin of their mouth, and the words of their lips, let them be caught in their pride, for the curses and lies which they utter.

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

  • Prov 1:9
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    9 for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.

  • Zeph 2:10
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    10 This they will have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Yahweh of Armies.

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

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

  • Isa 59:6
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    6 Their 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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    26 Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.

  • Isa 3:9
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    9 The look of their faces testify against them. They parade their sin like Sodom. They don't hide it. Woe to their soul! For they have brought disaster upon themselves.

  • Job 36:8-9
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    8 If they are bound in fetters, and are taken in the cords of afflictions,

    9 then he shows them their work, and their transgressions, that they have behaved themselves proudly.

  • Ezek 23:15
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    15 dressed with girdles on their waists, with flowing turbans on their heads, all of them princes to look on, after the likeness of the Babylonians in Chaldea, the land of their birth.

  • Job 41:34
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    34 He sees everything that is high. He is king over all the sons of pride."

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

  • Job 30:18
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    18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

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    27 As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit. Therefore they have become great, and grew rich.

    28 They have grown fat. They shine; yes, they excell in deeds of wickedness. They don't plead the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and they don't judge the right of the needy.

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    2 They don't consider in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness. Now their own deeds have engulfed them. They are before my face.

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

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

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    5 Everyone who is proud in heart is an abomination to Yahweh: they shall certainly not be unpunished.

  • Mic 7:3
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    3 Their hands are on that which is evil to do it diligently. The ruler and judge ask for a bribe; and the powerful man dictates the evil desire of his soul. Thus they conspire together.

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    11 Pour out the fury of your anger. Look at everyone who is proud, and bring him low.

  • Job 38:15
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    15 From the wicked, their light is withheld. The high arm is broken.

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

  • Mic 6:12
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    12 Her rich men are full of violence, her inhabitants speak lies, and their tongue is deceitful in their speech.

  • Mic 2:2
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    2 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.

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

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

  • Isa 3:6
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    6 Indeed a man shall take hold of his brother in the house of his father, saying, "You have clothing, you be our ruler, and let this ruin be under your hand."

  • Nah 1:10
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    10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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    7 He has walled me about, that I can't go forth; he has made my chain heavy.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

  • Jer 13:9
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    9 Thus says Yahweh, In this way I will mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

  • Prov 29:23
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    23 A man's pride brings him low, but one of lowly spirit gains honor.

  • Isa 5:18
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    18 Woe to those who draw iniquity with cords of falsehood, and wickedness as with cart rope;

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    13 "But those who are godless in heart lay up anger. They don't cry for help when he binds them.