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Psalm 73:8 KJV
Psalms · chapter 73 · verse 8
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.Psalm 73:8 · King James Version
Psalm 73:8 in context
6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- oppressionʻôsheqinjury, fraud, distress, unjust gainH6233 →
- wickedlyraʻbad or evilH7451 →
- corruptmûwqto jeerH4167 →
- speakdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
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This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he spoke by way of check to himself for what he had been thinking of.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-14