Psalms 73:8 · KJV
“They are corrupt, and speak wickedly {concerning} oppression: they speak loftily.”
— Psalms 73:8
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. {have...: Heb. pass the thoughts of the heart}
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Psalms 73 — Context
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them {as} a garment.
7Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish. {have...: Heb. pass the thoughts of the heart}
8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly {concerning} oppression: they speak loftily.
9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
10Therefore his people return hither: and waters of a full {cup} are wrung out to them.
Cross References
Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, complainers, walking after their own lusts; and their mouth speaketh great swelling {words}, having men's persons in admiration because of advantage.
Psalms 17:10
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Psalms 10:2
The wicked in {his} pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined. {The wicked...: Heb. In the pride of the wicked he doth persecute}
Psalms 12:4-5
Who have said, With our tongue will we prevail; our lips {are} our own: who {is} lord over us? {are...: Heb. are with us}
2 Peter 2:18
For when they speak great swelling {words} of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, {through much} wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}
Proverbs 30:13-14
{There is} a generation, O how lofty are their eyes! and their eyelids are lifted up.
2 Peter 2:10
But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous {are they}, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities. {government: or, dominion}
Jeremiah 7:9-11
Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;