Psalm 73:8
New International Version
They scoff, and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

New Living Translation
They scoff and speak only evil; in their pride they seek to crush others.

English Standard Version
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

Berean Standard Bible
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

King James Bible
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

New King James Version
They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression; They speak loftily.

New American Standard Bible
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.

NASB 1995
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.

NASB 1977
They mock, and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.

Legacy Standard Bible
They scoff and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak from on high.

Amplified Bible
They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak loftily [with malice].

Christian Standard Bible
They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
They mock, and they speak maliciously; they arrogantly threaten oppression.

American Standard Version
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
They have conceived and have spoken evil and oppression; they have spoken against The Highest.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They have taken counsel and spoken in wickedness: they have uttered unrighteousness loftily.

Contemporary English Version
They sneer and say cruel things, and because of their pride, they make violent threats.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

English Revised Version
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: they speak loftily.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
They ridicule. They speak maliciously. They speak arrogantly about oppression.

Good News Translation
They laugh at other people and speak of evil things; they are proud and make plans to oppress others.

International Standard Version
In their mockery they speak evil; from their arrogant position they speak oppression.

JPS Tanakh 1917
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression; They speak as if there were none on high.

Literal Standard Version
They do corruptly, | And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, | They speak from on high.

Majority Standard Bible
They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

New American Bible
They scoff and spout their malice; from on high they utter threats.

NET Bible
They mock and say evil things; they proudly threaten violence.

New Revised Standard Version
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

New Heart English Bible
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Webster's Bible Translation
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.

World English Bible
They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

Young's Literal Translation
They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

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Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild. 8They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression. 9They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.…

Cross References
James 3:5
In the same way, the tongue is a small part of the body, but it boasts of great things. Consider how small a spark sets a great forest ablaze.

2 Peter 2:18
With lofty but empty words, they appeal to the sensual passions of the flesh and entice those who are just escaping from others who live in error.

Jude 1:16
These men are discontented grumblers, following after their own lusts; their mouths spew arrogance; they flatter others for their own advantage.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked, or set foot on the path of sinners, or sit in the seat of mockers.

Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and violence; trouble and malice are under his tongue.

Psalm 12:4
They say, "With our tongues we will prevail. We own our lips--who can be our master?"


Treasury of Scripture

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

corrupt

Psalm 53:1-4
To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity: there is none that doeth good…

Proverbs 30:13,14
There is a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up…

speak wickedly

Psalm 10:2,10,11
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined…

Psalm 12:4,5
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips are our own: who is lord over us? …

Exodus 1:9,10
And he said unto his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we: …

speak loftily

2 Peter 2:10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling words, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.

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Psalm 73
1. The prophet, prevailing in a temptation
2. Shows the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked
13. The wound given thereby, diffidence
15. The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose.














(8) They are corrupt . . .--This, which is the Rabbinical rendering, is now universally abandoned in favour of another derivation of the verb. The Masoretic arrangement of the clauses may be also improved on:

"They scoff and speak of wickedness,

Of violence from their eminence they speak,"

where the first clause means, they speak mockingly of wickedness, or make a jest of sin.

Verse 8. - They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily; rather, they scoff, and speak wickedly; of oppression do they speak from heaven's height; i.e. "they scoff at the righteous, and speak wickedly concerning them; they talk of the oppressive acts which they meditate, as though they were Divine beings, speaking from the heavenly height" (Cheyne).

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Hebrew
They mock
יָמִ֤יקוּ ׀ (yā·mî·qū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 4167: To jeer, blaspheme

and speak
וִידַבְּר֣וּ (wî·ḏab·bə·rū)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Piel - Conjunctive imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

with malice;
בְרָ֣ע (ḇə·rā‘)
Preposition-b | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7451: Bad, evil

with arrogance
מִמָּר֥וֹם (mim·mā·rō·wm)
Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4791: Altitude

they threaten
יְדַבֵּֽרוּ׃ (yə·ḏab·bê·rū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1696: To arrange, to speak, to subdue

oppression.
עֹ֑שֶׁק (‘ō·šeq)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6233: Injury, fraud, distress, unjust gain


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