Sálmarnir 73:6

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6 Fyrir því er hrokinn hálsfesti þeirra, þeir eru sveipaðir ofríki eins og yfirhöfn.

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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.