Psalms 73:6 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 73:6

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

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ASV

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

WEB

Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

YLT

Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

DBT

Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them [as] a garment;

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.
Psalms 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.
Ecclesiastes 9:11
I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.
1 Peter 5:5
Likewise, ye younger, submit yourselves unto the elder. Yea, all of you be subject one to another, and be clothed with humility: for God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble.
Job 41:34
He beholdeth all high things: he is a king over all the children of pride.

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The prosperous wicked are insolently proud (compare Ps 5:5). They die, as well as live, free from perplexities: pride adorns them, and violence is their clothing; indeed they are inflated with unexpected success.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

It is not so much what the dress or apparel is (though we have rules for that, 1 Tim. ii. 9 ) as what principle ties it on and with what spirit it is worn. And, as the pride of sinners appears in their dress, so it does in their talk: They speak loftily (

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

They are corrupt, like the giants, the sinners of the old world, when the earth was filled with violence, Gen. vi. They care not what mischief they do, either for mischief-sake or for their own advantage-sake. They speak wickedly concerning oppression; they oppress, and justify themselves in it.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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