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Psalms 73:6
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Therefore, pride is their necklace,and violence covers them like a garment.
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
They wear pride like a necklace and put on violence as their clothing.
Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.
Therefore pride is their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].
Therefore arrogance is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.
Therefore lofty pride is their necklace;The garment of violence covers them.
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
So for them, pride is a necklace; and violence clothes them like a robe.
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;
So they are proud and hateful. This is as easy to see as the jewels and fancy clothes they wear.
Therefore pride holds them fast; they have concealed their wickedness and ungodliness.
And so they wear pride like a necklace and violence like a robe;
Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.
So pride enchains them; violence covers them like a robe.
And this is the cause that they be so puft vp in pryde, & ouerwhelmed with cruelte and vnrigthuousnesse.
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
And this is the cause that pride compasse them rounde about: and crueltie couereth them as a garment.
Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.
Therfore pride helde hem; thei weren hilid with her wickidnesse and vnfeithfulnesse.
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covers them as a garment.
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment.
Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty.
So they wear pride around their neck. Fighting covers them like a coat.
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.
For this cause, doth arrogance deck them as a neck-chain, And a garment of wrong is their attire;
(72-6) Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
Pretentious with arrogance, they wear the latest fashions in violence, Pampered and overfed, decked out in silk bows of silliness. They jeer, using words to kill; they bully their way with words. They're full of hot air, loudmouths disturbing the peace. People actually listen to them—can you believe it? Like thirsty puppies, they lap up their words.
Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
Contextual Overview
(A psalm by Asaph.)
God is truly good to Israel, especially to everyone with a pure heart. 2 But I almost stumbled and fell, 3 because it made me jealous to see proud and evil people and to watch them prosper. 4 They never have to suffer, they stay healthy, 5 and they don't have troubles like everyone else. 6 Their pride is like a necklace, and they commit sin more often than they dress themselves. 7 Their eyes poke out with fat, and their minds are flooded with foolish thoughts. 8 They sneer and say cruel things, and because of their pride, they make violent threats. 9 They dare to speak against God and to order others around. 10 God will bring his people back, and they will drink the water he so freely gives.Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Therefore: Deuteronomy 8:13, Deuteronomy 8:14, Deuteronomy 32:15, Esther 3:1, Esther 3:5, Esther 3:6, Esther 5:9-11, Job 21:7-15, Ecclesiastes 8:11, Jeremiah 48:11, Jeremiah 48:29, Ezekiel 28:2-5, Daniel 4:30
as a chain: Judges 8:26, Proverbs 1:9, Song of Solomon 4:9, Isaiah 3:19, Ezekiel 16:11
violence: Proverbs 3:31, *marg. Proverbs 4:17, Micah 2:1, Micah 2:2, Micah 3:5, James 5:4-6
covereth: Psalms 109:18, Psalms 109:29, 1 Peter 5:5
Reciprocal: Job 35:12 - because Job 41:34 - he is Psalms 55:19 - no changes Proverbs 6:17 - A proud look Ecclesiastes 6:11 - General Ecclesiastes 9:11 - that the race Isaiah 3:9 - The show Jeremiah 5:28 - waxen Daniel 11:2 - far 1 John 2:16 - and the pride
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, .] Which was the sin of the devils, and of our first parents, and of Sodom, and is the sin of antichrist and which, of all sins, is most hateful to God; this arises from, at least is increased by, outward prosperity. Jeshurun waxed fat and kicked; pride and fulness of bread went together in Sodom; and, where it is predominant, it binds as a chain; such who are under the power of it are slaves unto it, they are chained and fettered by it, and it possesses them wholly; it shows itself in the several members of their bodies, in their eyes and feet, their walk and gait, and in their conduct and behaviour, and in the several actions of their lives, and is rightly called "the pride of life"; or rather they bind it about themselves as a chain, fancying it to be an ornament to them, what sets them off, and makes them look great in the eyes of others; whereas the reverse is what is of great price, and in high esteem with God and good men; namely, the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit:
violence covereth them as a garment; wicked men that are prosperous and proud are generally oppressive to others; and are very often open in their acts of violence, which are as openly done and to be seen of all men, as the clothes upon their backs; and frequently the clothes they wear are got by rapine and oppression, so that they may properly be called garments of violence; see Isaiah 59:6.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - Therefore they are proud, haughty, imperious. They put on the ornaments and trappings of pride; their clothing and their adorning all are indicative of a proud heart. They seem to imagine that they are better than others, and that they are treated in this manner “because” they are better than others. In the original it is a single word which is rendered “compasseth about as a chain.” The word means “to adorn with a necklace or collar;” and the idea is, that pride surrounds them as with a neck-chain, or a collar for the neck. They wear it as an ornament. They make it conspicuous. It is apparent on a haughty neck - in an erect and stiff demeanour. Compare the notes at Isaiah 3:16 : “The daughters of Zion walk with stretched forth necks.”
Violence covereth them as a garment - Injustice or cruelty seems to be their very clothing. It is manifest in their whole gait and demeanor that they are men of haughtiness and pride; that they are destitute of tenderness, sympathy, sensibility.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 73:6. Pride compasseth them about as a chain — Perhaps there is an allusion here to the office which some of them bore. Chains of gold, and golden rings, were ensigns of magistracy and civil power. As these chains encompassed their necks, or the rings their wrists and fingers, as the signs of the offices in virtue of which they acted; so חמס chamas, violence, oppressive conduct, encompassed them. They made no other use of their great power, than to oppress the poor and the needy; and to drive things to extremities. The Chaldee, instead of a chain, represents this as a crown or diadem, which they had formed out of the plunder of the poor and defenceless.
