They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
Parallel translations
- KJV They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
- BSB They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.
- ESV They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongue struts through the earth.
- NKJV They set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue walks through the earth.
- NASB They have set their mouth against the heavens, And their tongue parades through the earth.
- NLT They boast against the very heavens, and their words strut throughout the earth.
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Quick answer
They set their mouths against heaven, and their tongues range arrogantly over the earth.
Overview
Their boasting reaches up against God himself while their slander spreads across the world. No realm is safe from their proud speech. Such defiance of heaven invites God's judgment, for he will not let his name be reproached forever (Psalm 74:10).
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Cross-references · 9
- Rev 13:6He opened his mouth for blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his dwelling, those who dwell in heaven.
- Exod 5:2Pharaoh said, “Who is Yahweh, that I should listen to his voice to let Israel go? I don’t know Yahweh, and moreover I will not let Israel go.”
- Jas 3:6And the tongue is a fire. The world of iniquity among our members is the tongue, which defiles the whole body, and sets on fire the course of nature, and is set on fire by Gehenna.
- 2 Chr 32:15Now therefore don’t let Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you in this way. Don’t believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of my hand, and out of the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you out of my hand?”
- Dan 3:15Now if you are ready whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music to fall down and worship the image which I have made, good: but if you don’t worship, you shall be cast the same hour into the middle of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that god that shall deliver you out of my hands?
- Dan 7:25He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
- Luke 18:4He wouldn’t for a while, but afterward he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God, nor respect man,
- Ps 52:4You love all devouring words, you deceitful tongue.
- Job 21:14They tell God, ‘Depart from us, for we don’t want to know about your ways.
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