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Psalms 73:9

PrideWords and speech

7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.

8 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

10 Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.

11 And they say, How doth God know? and is there knowledge in the most High?

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BSB
They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
KJV
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
WEB
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
ASV
They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
DARBY
They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
BLB
They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
ÅB
De løfter sin munn opp til himmelen, og deres tunge farer fram på jorden.
OTB
De setter sine munner mot himmelen,
Og deres tunger strutter gjennom jorden.
B1930
De løfter sin munn op til himmelen, og deres tunge farer frem på jorden.

Study notes (Tyndale)

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  • Revelation 13:6

    And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.

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  • James 3:6

    And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

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  • Exodus 5:2

    And Pharaoh said, Who is the LORD, that I should obey his voice to let Israel go? I know not the LORD, neither will I let Israel go.

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  • Daniel 7:25

    And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

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  • 2 Chronicles 32:15

    Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand, and out of the hand of my fathers: how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand?

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  • Daniel 3:15

    Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

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  • Luke 18:4

    And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

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  • Job 21:14

    Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

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