Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.
Parallel translations
- WEB Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
- KJV Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- BSB Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
- ESV Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
- NASB Therefore arrogance is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.
- NLT They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty.
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Quick answer
Because of their ease, pride adorns the wicked like a necklace and violence clothes them like a garment.
Overview
Their prosperity breeds open arrogance and cruelty, worn as if they were ornaments. Pride and violence become their very identity. Scripture consistently warns that pride precedes destruction, and the psalm will show God bringing the proud low (Proverbs 16:18).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 25
- Ps 109:18He clothed himself also with cursing as with his garment. It came into his inward parts like water, like oil into his bones.
- 1 Pet 5:5Likewise, you younger ones, be subject to the elder. Yes, all of you clothe yourselves with humility, to subject yourselves to one another; for “God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Judg 8:26The weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold, besides the crescents, and the pendants, and the purple clothing that was on the kings of Midian, and besides the chains that were about their camels’ necks.
- Prov 1:9for they will be a garland to grace your head, and chains around your neck.
- Dan 4:30The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
- Prov 3:31Don’t envy the man of violence. Choose none of his ways.
- Prov 4:17For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.
- Ezek 16:11I decked you with ornaments. put bracelets on your hands, and a chain on your neck.
- Deut 8:13–14and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;
- Deut 32:15But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked. You have grown fat. You have grown thick. You have become sleek. Then he abandoned God who made him, and rejected the Rock of his salvation.
- Mic 3:5Yahweh says concerning the prophets who lead my people astray; for those who feed their teeth, they proclaim, “Peace!” and whoever doesn’t provide for their mouths, they prepare war against him:
- Song 4:9You have ravished my heart, my sister, my bride. You have ravished my heart with one of your eyes, with one chain of your neck.
- Eccl 8:11Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
- Ezek 28:2–5Son of man, tell the prince of Tyre, Thus says the Lord Yahweh: Because your heart is lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the middle of the seas; yet you are man, and not God, though you set your heart as the heart of God —
- Jer 48:29“We have heard of the pride of Moab. He is very proud; his loftiness, and his pride, and his arrogance, and the haughtiness of his heart.
- Esth 5:9–11Then Haman went out that day joyful and glad of heart, but when Haman saw Mordecai in the king’s gate, that he didn’t stand up nor move for him, he was filled with wrath against Mordecai.
- Mic 2:1–2Woe to those who devise iniquity and work evil on their beds! When the morning is light, they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.
- Gen 41:42Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it on Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in robes of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck,
- Jas 5:4–6Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.
- Jer 48:11“Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has settled on his lees, and has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, neither has he gone into captivity: therefore his taste remains in him, and his scent is not changed.
- Esth 3:1After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.
- Esth 3:5–6When Haman saw that Mordecai didn’t bow down, nor pay him homage, Haman was full of wrath.
- Job 21:7–15“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
- Isa 3:19the earrings, the bracelets, the veils,
- Ps 109:29Let my adversaries be clothed with dishonor. Let them cover themselves with their own shame as with a robe.
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