Psalm 73:6
New International Version
Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

New Living Translation
They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty.

English Standard Version
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

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

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

New King James Version
Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.

New American Standard Bible
Therefore arrogance is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

NASB 1995
Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

NASB 1977
Therefore pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Therefore lofty pride is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

Amplified Bible
Therefore pride is their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment [like a long, luxurious robe].

Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because of this, contempt has seized them and their evil is covered and their wickedness.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Therefore pride has possessed them; they have clothed themselves with their injustice and ungodliness.

Contemporary English Version
Their pride is like a necklace, and they commit sin more often than they dress themselves.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore pride hath held them fast: they are covered with their iniquity and their wickedness.

English Revised Version
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; violence covereth them as a garment.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
That is why they wear arrogance like a necklace and acts of violence like clothing.

Good News Translation
And so they wear pride like a necklace and violence like a robe;

International Standard Version
Therefore pride is their necklace and violence covers them like a garment.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

Literal Standard Version
Therefore pride has encircled them, | Violence covers them as a dress.

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

New American Bible
Thus pride adorns them as a necklace; violence clothes them as a robe.

NET Bible
Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them like a garment.

New Heart English Bible
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Webster's Bible Translation
Therefore pride encompasseth them as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.

World English Bible
Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

Young's Literal Translation
Therefore hath pride encircled them, Violence covereth them as a dress.

Additional Translations ...
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Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
5They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men. 6Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them. 7From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.…

Cross References
Genesis 41:42
Then Pharaoh removed the signet ring from his finger, put it on Joseph's finger, clothed him in garments of fine linen, and placed a gold chain around his neck.

Psalm 10:2
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.

Psalm 109:18
The cursing that he wore like a coat, may it soak into his body like water, and into his bones like oil.

Psalm 109:19
May it be like a robe wrapped about him, like a belt tied forever around him.

Proverbs 1:9
For they are a garland of grace on your head and a pendant around your neck.

Malachi 2:16
"For I hate divorce," says the LORD, the God of Israel. "He who divorces his wife covers his garment with violence," says the LORD of Hosts. So guard yourselves in your spirit and do not break faith.


Treasury of Scripture

Therefore pride compasses them about as a chain; violence covers them as a garment.

therefore

Deuteronomy 8:13,14
And when thy herds and thy flocks multiply, and thy silver and thy gold is multiplied, and all that thou hast is multiplied; …

Deuteronomy 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

Esther 3:1,5,6
After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him…

as a chain

Judges 8:26
And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels' necks.

Proverbs 1:9
For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.

Song of Solomon 4:9
Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, my spouse; thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, with one chain of thy neck.

violence

Proverbs 3:31
Envy thou not the oppressor, and choose none of his ways.

Proverbs 4:17
For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence.

Micah 2:1,2
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand…

covereth

Psalm 109:18,29
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…

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.

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Psalm 73
1. The prophet, prevailing in a temptation
2. Shows the occasion thereof, the prosperity of the wicked
13. The wound given thereby, diffidence
15. The victory over it, knowledge of God's purpose.














(6) Therefore.--Better,

"Therefore pride is their necklace,

And violence their mantle."

The first metaphor might have been suggested either by the fact that the rich lavished large sums on jewellery, especially necklaces (see Note, Song of Solomon 1:10), or possibly from the usual description of the proud as "stiffnecked."

Verse 6. - Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; or, is as a chain about their neck (Revised Version) - makes them stiffen their neck, and hold their head aloft. Not being afflicted, they regard themselves as favourites of Heaven, and are therefore puffed up with pride, which they show in their gait and bearing. Violence covereth them as a garment. Pride and self-conceit naturally lead on to violence, which becomes so habitual to them that it seems like their ordinary apparel (comp. Psalm 109:18, 19). The violence of the great ones in Israel is continually denounced, both by psalmists and prophets (see Psalm 11:2; Psalm 55:9; Psalm 58:2; Psalm 72:14, etc.; Isaiah 1:15; Isaiah 3:15; Isaiah 59:3-7; Hosea 4:1, 2; Amos 3:10, etc.).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Therefore
לָ֭כֵן (lā·ḵên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

pride
גַאֲוָ֑ה (ḡa·’ă·wāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 1346: Arrogance, majesty, ornament

is their necklace;
עֲנָקַ֣תְמוֹ (‘ă·nā·qaṯ·mōw)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular | third person masculine singular
Strong's 6059: To collar, adorn with a, necklace, to fit out with supplies

a garment
שִׁ֝֗ית (ṯ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's 7897: A garment

of violence
חָמָ֥ס (ḥā·mās)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2555: Violence, wrong, by meton, unjust gain

covers them.
יַעֲטָף־ (ya·‘ă·ṭā·p̄ō·ši-)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5848: To shroud, clothe, to languish


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