Psalms Chapter 73 verse 8 Holy Bible
They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.
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Their thoughts are deep with evil designs; their talk from their seats of power is of cruel acts.
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They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:
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They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
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They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily.
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They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
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They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 8. - They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily; rather, they scoff, and speak wickedly; of oppression do they speak from heaven's height; i.e. "they scoff at the righteous, and speak wickedly concerning them; they talk of the oppressive acts which they meditate, as though they were Divine beings, speaking from the heavenly height" (Cheyne).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(8) They are corrupt . . .--This, which is the Rabbinical rendering, is now universally abandoned in favour of another derivation of the verb. The Masoretic arrangement of the clauses may be also improved on:"They scoff and speak of wickedness,Of violence from their eminence they speak,"where the first clause means, they speak mockingly of wickedness, or make a jest of sin.