תהלים 73:8

Hebrew Modern Translation

ימיקו וידברו ברע עשק ממרום ידברו׃

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Aleppo Codex
וידברו ברע עשק ממרום ידברו

Biblia Hebrica Stuttgartensia (1967/77)
יָמִ֤יקוּ ׀ וִידַבְּר֣וּ בְרָ֣ע עֹ֑שֶׁק מִמָּרֹ֥ום יְדַבֵּֽרוּ ׃

Westminster Leningrad Codex
יָמִיקוּ ׀ וִידַבְּרוּ בְרָע עֹשֶׁק מִמָּרוֹם יְדַבֵּֽרוּ ׃

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

corrupt: Psalms 53:1-4, Proverbs 30:13, Proverbs 30:14

speak wickedly: Psalms 10:2, Psalms 10:10, Psalms 10:11, Psalms 12:4, Psalms 12:5, Exodus 1:9, Exodus 1:10, 1 Samuel 13:19, 1 Kings 21:7-29, Jeremiah 7:9-11, Hosea 7:16

speak loftily: 2 Peter 2:10, Jude 1:16

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:10 - Who is David 1 Samuel 25:11 - Shall I then 2 Kings 18:27 - eat 2 Kings 18:29 - saith 2 Chronicles 32:19 - spake Ezra 4:2 - Assur Psalms 10:3 - boasteth Psalms 12:3 - tongue Psalms 39:1 - that I Psalms 55:3 - oppression Psalms 94:3 - Lord Psalms 94:4 - shall Psalms 139:20 - for they speak Proverbs 6:12 - walketh Isaiah 3:8 - because Isaiah 36:13 - cried Jeremiah 44:16 - we Ezekiel 35:13 - have multiplied Daniel 4:30 - Is not Malachi 3:14 - It is James 3:5 - so 2 Peter 2:18 - they speak

Gill's Notes on the Bible

They are corrupt,.... In themselves, in their principles, and in their practices, being shapen and conceived in sin, and born of the flesh; and are corrupters, or "corrupt" themselves, and their ways, and also others by their corrupt speech, evil communications, and bad examples: or "they consume away"; like smoke, or into it, as Psalms 37:20 or as wax melteth at the fire, Psalms 68:2, where the same word is used as here: or "they cause to consume away" o; "they melt or dissolve others"; they consume them, and waste their estates by their oppression and violence; they make their hearts to melt with their threatening and terrifying words; or they make them dissolute in their lives by keeping them company:

and speak wickedly concerning oppression; they speak oppression and revolt, threaten with it, Isaiah 59:13, and speak in vindication of it, and in a boasting glorying manner; so Arama; which is speaking wickedly concerning it:

they speak loftily: proudly, arrogantly, in a haughty and imperious manner: or "from on high" p; as if they were in heaven, and above all creatures, and even God himself; and as if what they said were oracles, and to be received as such, without any scruple and hesitation. Thus Pharaoh, Sennacherib, and Nebuchadnezzar spake, Exodus 5:2 and the little horn, or antichrist, Daniel 7:20.

o ימיקו "dissolutos reddunt", Vatablus; "reddent se dissolutos", Montanus; "faciunt tabescere", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis. p ממרום "a sublimi", Musculus, Tigurine version, Junius Tremellius, Piscator "ex alto", Cocceius, Gejerus, Michaelis.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

They are corrupt - literally, “they mock.” The word rendered “they are corrupt” never has this signification. It is the very word - מוק mûq - from which our word mock is derived, and means the same thing. The idea is that they deride religion, or mock at all that pertains to God, and to the retributions of the future world.

And speak wickedly concerning oppression ... - literally, “they speak in wickedness; oppression they speak from on high.” That is, they use arrogant language; they speak in a proud manner, as if they were above others; they use harsh and violent language, not regarding the feelings or the rights of others.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 73:8. They are corrupt — ימיקו yamiku, they mock, act dissolutely.

And speak wickedly concerning oppression — They vindicate excessive acts of government: they push justice to its rigour. They neither show equity, lenity, nor mercy; they are cruel, and they vindicate their proceedings.