Psalms 73:8
They scorn, and speak wickedly of oppression: loftily do they speak.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
In Context
7Their eyes start out from fatness: they have exceeded their heart's imaginings.
9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh busily on the earth.
Cross References
Exodus 1:9And he said unto his people: Behold, the people of the children of Israel are more numerous and mightier than we.
1 Kings 21:7Then said unto him Izebel his wife, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be merry: I will myself give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Yizre'elite.
Psalms 10:2In the pride of the wicked doth he hotly pursue the poor: they are seized through the plans that those have devised.
Psalms 12:4(12:5) Who have said, With our tongue will we be mighty; our lips are with us; who is Lord over us!
Psalms 17:10They are enclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Proverbs 30:13There is a generation—O how lofty are its eyes! and its eyelids are so lifted up.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 73:2-15
God's Goodness to His People; Unsanctified Prosperity. 1 Truly God is good to Israel, even to such as are of a clean heart. 2 But as for me, my feet were almost gone; my steps had well nigh slipped. 3 For I was envious at the foolish, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm. 5 They are not in trouble as other men; neither are they plagued like other men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment. 7… Read the whole commentary →