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They pour out arrogant words; all workers of iniquity boast.
Psalms 94:4 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
  • KJV How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
  • NKJV They utter speech, and speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
  • NASB They pour out words, they speak arrogantly; All who do injustice boast.
  • NLT How long will they speak with arrogance? How long will these evil people boast?

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Quick answer

The wicked pour out arrogant words and boast in their evil. Unchecked pride and boastful speech mark those who defy God.

Overview

The psalmist describes the insolence of evildoers who speak proudly and glory in wrongdoing. Their arrogant words reveal hearts that presume God will not respond. Scripture warns that God opposes the proud and will silence every boastful tongue (James 4:6; Psalm 73:8-9).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 23

  • Ps 31:18May lying lips be silenced—lips that speak with arrogance against the righteous, full of pride and contempt.
  • Ps 52:1For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house of Ahimelech.” Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The loving devotion of God endures all day long.
  • Dan 7:25He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.
  • Rev 13:5–6The beast was given a mouth to speak arrogant and blasphemous words, and authority to act for 42 months.
  • Ps 140:3They sharpen their tongues like snakes; the venom of vipers is on their lips. Selah
  • Jude 1:14–15Enoch, the seventh from Adam, also prophesied about them: “Behold, the Lord is coming with myriads of His holy ones
  • Ps 73:8–9They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.
  • Matt 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
  • Jer 18:18Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
  • Isa 37:24–25Through your servants you have taunted the Lord, and you have said: “With my many chariots I have ascended to the heights of the mountains, to the remote peaks of Lebanon. I have cut down its tallest cedars, the finest of its cypresses. I have reached its farthest heights, the densest of its forests.
  • Ps 10:2–7In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
  • Exod 15:9–10The enemy declared, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake. I will divide the spoils; I will gorge myself on them. I will draw my sword; my hand will destroy them.’
  • Isa 10:13–15For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
  • Job 21:14–15Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
  • Dan 7:8While I was contemplating the horns, suddenly another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the first horns were uprooted before it. This horn had eyes like those of a man and a mouth that spoke words of arrogance.
  • Dan 8:11It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
  • Ps 59:12By the sins of their mouths and the words of their lips, let them be trapped in their pride, in the curses and lies they utter.
  • Dan 7:11Then I kept watching because of the arrogant words the horn was speaking. As I continued to watch, the beast was slain, and its body was destroyed and thrown into the blazing fire.
  • Matt 12:24But when the Pharisees heard this, they said, “Only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, does this man drive out demons.”
  • Ps 59:7See what they spew from their mouths—sharp words from their lips: “For who can hear us?”
  • Prov 30:14there is a generation whose teeth are swords and whose jaws are knives, devouring the oppressed from the earth and the needy from among men.
  • Dan 11:36–37Then the king will do as he pleases and will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will speak monstrous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decreed must be accomplished.
  • Ps 64:3–4who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,

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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

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