Psalm 73:6
Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
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Deuteronomy 8:13, 14
and when your herds and flocks grow large, and your silver and gold are multiplied, and all you have increases, . . .

Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked--becoming fat, bloated, and gorged. He abandoned the God who made him and scorned the Rock of his salvation.

Esther 3:1, 5, 6
After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him to a position above all the princes who were with him. . . .

Esther 5:9-11
That 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. . . .

Job 21:7-15
Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power? . . .

Ecclesiastes 8:11
When the sentence for a crime is not speedily executed, the hearts of men become fully set on doing evil.

Jeremiah 48:11, 29
Moab has been at ease from youth, settled like wine on its dregs; he has not been poured from vessel to vessel or gone into exile. So his taste has remained the same, and his aroma is unchanged. . . .

Ezekiel 28:2-5
"Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: 'Your heart is proud, and you have said, "I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea." Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god. . . .

Daniel 4:30
the 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?"

as a chain

Judges 8:26
The 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 1:9
For they are a garland of grace on your head, and a pendant around your neck.

Song of Solomon 4:9
You 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.

Isaiah 3:19
their pendants, bracelets, and veils,

Ezekiel 16:11
I adorned you with jewelry, and I put bracelets on your wrists and a chain around your neck.

violence

Proverbs 3:31
Do not envy a violent man or choose any of his ways;

Proverbs 4:17
since they eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence.

Micah 2:1, 2
Woe 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. . . .

Micah 3:5
This is what the LORD says: "As for the prophets who lead my people astray, who proclaim peace while they chew with their teeth, but declare war against one who puts nothing in their mouths:

James 5:4-6
Look, 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. . . .

covereth

Psalm 109:18, 29
The cursing he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil. . . .

1 Peter 5:5
Young 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."

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

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

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

International Standard Version
Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.

NET Bible
Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of this, contempt has seized them and their evil is covered and their wickedness.
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