Psalms 73:6

In 11 translations

BSB

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

KJV

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

WEB

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

ASV

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

LSV

Therefore pride has encircled them, || Violence covers them as a dress.

YLT

Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

DBY

Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;

DRC72:6

Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

GNV

Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.

JPS

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.

LXXE72:6

Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

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Original-language editions

WLC

לָ֭כֵן עֲנָקַ֣תְמוֹ גַאֲוָ֑ה יַעֲטָף־שִׁ֝֗ית חָמָ֥ס לָֽמוֹ׃

LXX-Br72:6

Διὰ τοῦτο ἐκράτησεν αὐτοὺς ἡ ὑπερηφανία, περιεβάλοντο ἀδικίαν καὶ ἀσέβειαν αὐτῶν.

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Cross-references most cited first

• Psalms 109:18The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.
• 1 Peter 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
• Judges 8:26The weight of the gold earrings he had requested was 1,700 shekels, in addition to the crescent ornaments, the pendants, the purple garments of the kings of Midian, and the chains from the necks of their camels.
• Proverbs 1:9For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.
• Daniel 4:30the king exclaimed, “Is this not Babylon the Great, which I myself have built by the might of my power as a royal residence and for the glory of my majesty?”
• Proverbs 3:31Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;
• James 5:4–6Look, the wages you withheld from the workmen who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts. You have lived on earth in luxury and…
• Deuteronomy 8:13–14and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud, and you will forget the LORD your God who brought you out of the land…
• Ezekiel 16:11I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.
• Esther 5:9–11That day Haman went out full of joy and glad of heart. At the king’s gate, however, he saw Mordecai, who did not rise or tremble in fear at his presence. And Haman was filled with rage toward Mordecai. Nevertheless,…
• Isaiah 3:19their pendants, bracelets, and veils;
• Song of Songs 4:9You have captured my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your neck.
• Micah 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands. They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of…
• Proverbs 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.
• Ecclesiastes 8:11When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.
• Esther 3:5–6When Haman saw that Mordecai would not bow down or pay him homage, he was filled with rage. And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he…

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