Parallel Verses
Webster
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
New American Standard Bible
The
King James Version
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
Holman Bible
and violence covers them like a garment.
International Standard Version
Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.
A Conservative Version
Therefore pride is as a chain around their neck. Violence covers them as a garment.
American Standard Version
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.
Amplified
Therefore pride is their necklace;
Violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].
Bible in Basic English
For this reason pride is round them like a chain; they are clothed with violent behaviour as with a robe.
Darby Translation
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;
Julia Smith Translation
For this, pride surrounded them as a neck-chain; the dress of violence will cover to them.
King James 2000
Therefore pride surrounds them as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Therefore pride is their necklace; an outfit of violence covers them.
Modern King James verseion
Therefore pride enchains them; violence covers them like a robe.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
And this is the cause that they be so puffed up in pride, and overwhelmed with cruelty and unrighteousness.
NET Bible
Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.
New Heart English Bible
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
The Emphasized Bible
For this cause, doth arrogance deck them as a neck-chain, And a garment of wrong is their attire;
World English Bible
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
Youngs Literal Translation
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.
Themes
Corruption » In politics in the church » The prevalence of violence
Pride » The wicked encompassed with
Punishment of the The Wicked » In this life by » Put in slippery places
The Nation » Appointed by God corrupt » The prevalence of violence
The world » Conformity to forbidden creation of » Filled with violence
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 73:6
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Ways Vindicated
5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they afflicted like other men. 6 Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 109:18
As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones.
Judges 8:26
And the weight of the golden ear-rings that he requested, was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; besides ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels' necks.
Proverbs 1:9
For they shalt be an ornament of grace to thy head, and chains about thy neck.
Genesis 41:42
And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph's hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;
Deuteronomy 8:13-14
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold are increased, and all that thou hast is increased;
Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou hast waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God who made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.
Esther 3:1
After these things king Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him.
Esther 3:5-6
And when Haman saw that Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence, then was Haman full of wrath.
Esther 5:9-11
Then went Haman forth that day joyful and with a glad heart: but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king's gate, that he stood not up, nor moved for him, he was full of indignation against Mordecai.
Job 21:7-15
Why do the wicked live, become old, and, are mighty in power?
Psalm 109:29
Let my adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.
Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
Song of Songs 4:9
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thy eyes, with one chain of thy neck.
Isaiah 3:19
The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,
Jeremiah 48:11
Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither hath he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remained in him, and his scent is not changed.
Jeremiah 48:29
We have heard the pride of Moab, (he is exceeding proud) his loftiness, and his arrogance, and his pride, and the haughtiness of his heart.
Ezekiel 16:11
I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.
Ezekiel 28:2-5
Son of man, say to the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art a man, and not God, though thou settest thy heart as the heart of God:
Daniel 4:30
The king spoke, and said, Is not this great Babylon, that I have built for the house of the kingdom by the might of my power, and for the honor of my majesty?
Micah 2:1-2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Micah 3:5
Thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that make my people err, that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and he that putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:
James 5:4-6
Behold, the hire of the laborers who have reaped your fields, which is by you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them who have reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves to the elder. Yes, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.