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King James Version

Psalms 94:4

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Afflictions and Adversities;   Boasting;   Wicked (People);   The Topic Concordance - Iniquity;   Knowledge;   Wickedness;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Vengeance;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - People ;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Hard;  

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly;All workers of iniquity vaunt themselves.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
They pour forth words, they speak arrogantly; All who do wickedness vaunt themselves.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
All such as be workers of iniquitie: they babble, they prate shoutly, they make boastes of them selues.
Darby Translation
[How long] shall they utter [and] speak insolence—all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
New King James Version
They utter speech, and speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
Literal Translation
They gush, they speak impudent things; all the workers of evil speak proudly.
Easy-to-Read Version
How much longer will those criminals brag about the evil they did?
World English Bible
They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
King James Version (1611)
How long shal they vtter, and speake hard things? and all the workers of iniquitie boast themselues?
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
How longe shal all wicked doers speake so di?daynedly, and make soch proude boastynge?
Amplified Bible
They pour out words, speaking arrogant things; All who do evil boast proudly.
American Standard Version
They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Bible in Basic English
Words of pride come from their lips; all the workers of evil say great things of themselves.
Update Bible Version
They prate, they speak arrogantly: All the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Webster's Bible Translation
[How long] shall they utter [and] speak hard things? [and] all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
New English Translation
They spew out threats and speak defiantly; all the evildoers boast.
Contemporary English Version
All of those cruel people strut and boast,
Complete Jewish Bible
They pour out insolent words, they go on bragging, all these evildoers.
Geneva Bible (1587)
They prate and speake fiercely: all the workers of iniquitie vaunt themselues.
George Lamsa Translation
They shall utter and speak unjust things; they shall speak all kinds of evil things.
Hebrew Names Version
They pour out arrogant words. All the evil-doers boast.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
They gush out, they speak arrogancy; all the workers of iniquity bear themselves loftily.
New Living Translation
How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?
New Life Bible
They pour out proud words. All those who do wrong, talk about themselves as if they are great people.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
They will utter and speak unrighteousness; all the workers of iniquity will speak so.
English Revised Version
They prate, they speak arrogantly: all the workers of iniquity boast themselves.
Berean Standard Bible
They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
New Revised Standard
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They pour forth words , they speak arrogantly, All the workers of iniquity, do boast:
Douay-Rheims Bible
(93-4) Shall they utter, and speak iniquity: shall all speak who work injustice?
Lexham English Bible
They gush words unrestrained. All the evildoers boast.
English Standard Version
They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
New American Standard Bible
They pour out words, they speak arrogantly; All who do injustice boast.
New Century Version
They are full of proud words; those who do evil brag about what they have done.
Good News Translation
How much longer will criminals be proud and boast about their crimes?
Christian Standard Bible®
They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Thei schulen telle out, and schulen speke wickidnesse; alle men schulen speke that worchen vnriytfulnesse.
Young's Literal Translation
They utter -- they speak an old saw, All working iniquity do boast themselves.
Revised Standard Version
They pour out their arrogant words, they boast, all the evildoers.

Contextual Overview

1 O Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth; O God, to whom vengeance belongeth, shew thyself. 2 Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud. 3 Lord , how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph? 4 How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? 5 They break in pieces thy people, O Lord , and afflict thine heritage. 6 They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless. 7 Yet they say, The Lord shall not see, neither shall the God of Jacob regard it. 8 Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? 9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see? 10 He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

shall: Psalms 31:18, Psalms 59:7, Psalms 59:12, Psalms 64:3, Psalms 64:4, Psalms 73:8, Psalms 73:9, Psalms 140:3, Proverbs 30:14, Jeremiah 18:18, Matthew 12:24, Matthew 12:34, Jude 1:14, Jude 1:15

boast: Psalms 10:2-7, Psalms 52:1, Exodus 15:9, Exodus 15:10, Job 21:14, Job 21:15, Isaiah 10:13-15, Isaiah 37:24, Isaiah 37:25, Daniel 7:8, Daniel 7:11, Daniel 7:25, Daniel 8:11, Daniel 11:36, Daniel 11:37, Revelation 13:5, Revelation 13:6

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 2:3 - let not arrogancy Psalms 10:3 - boasteth Psalms 13:1 - How Psalms 14:1 - They are Psalms 35:17 - how Jeremiah 12:1 - Wherefore doth Jeremiah 13:27 - wilt Lamentations 5:20 - dost Romans 1:30 - boasters Revelation 6:10 - How

Gill's Notes on the Bible

How long shall they utter and speak hard things?,.... Against Christ, his person and offices, his ministers, his people, his truths and ordinances; this is very applicable to antichrist, who has a mouth speaking blasphemies, and which he opens, and with it blasphemes God, his tabernacle, and them that dwell in it, Revelation 13:5. The Targum is,

"will they utter and speak reproachful words?''

contumelies or calumnies; and such are uttered by the antichristian party against the true professors of religion in great abundance, as water out of a fountain, as the first word a used signifies; see Judges 1:15,

and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves; the just character of the followers of antichrist, who work an abomination, and make a lie, and whose whole course of life, and even of religion, is a series of sin and iniquity, Revelation 21:27, these lift up themselves against, the Lord, like the high branches of a tree, as Aben Ezra; or praise themselves, as Jarchi; being proud, they are boasters; boast of their antiquity and precedence, of their wealth and riches, of their power and authority, of infallibility, and works of supererogation, and the like.

a יביעו "effutient", Montanus, Tigurine version, Vatablus; "effutiunt", Musculus; "scaturiunt", Cocceius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? - The word rendered utter means to pour forth - as water from a fountain; to pour forth copiously. The meaning is, that they seemed to be full, and that they poured forth evil words as a fountain pours forth water. The phrase “hard things” means proud, unfeeling, insolent things; things which are unjust, unkind, severe, harsh.

And all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? - Boast of their power and their success. How long shall they be permitted to have such success as may seem to justify them in their exultation?

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 94:4. They utter and speak — יביאו yabbiu, their hearts get full of pride and insolence; and then, from the abundance of such vile hearts, the mouth speaks; and the speech is of hard things, threatenings which they are determined to execute, boastings of their power, authority, &c.


 
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