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Psalm 73:7–9

kTheir eyes stand out with fatness:

They have more than heart could wish.

They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression:

lThey speak mloftily.

They set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue walketh through the earth.

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Psalm 73:7–9 — The New International Version (NIV)

From their callous hearts comes iniquity;

their evil imaginations have no limits.

They scoff, and speak with malice;

with arrogance they threaten oppression.

Their mouths lay claim to heaven,

and their tongues take possession of the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — English Standard Version (ESV)

Their eyes swell out through fatness;

their hearts overflow with follies.

They scoff and speak with malice;

loftily they threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against the heavens,

and their tongue struts through the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — New Living Translation (NLT)

These fat cats have everything

their hearts could ever wish for!

They scoff and speak only evil;

in their pride they seek to crush others.

They boast against the very heavens,

and their words strut throughout the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — The New King James Version (NKJV)

Their eyes bulge with abundance;

They have more than heart could wish.

They scoff and speak wickedly concerning oppression;

They speak loftily.

They set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue walks through the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — New Century Version (NCV)

They are looking for profits

and do not control their selfish desires.

They make fun of others and speak evil;

proudly they speak of hurting others.

They brag to the sky.

They say that they own the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — American Standard Version (ASV)

Their eyes stand out with fatness:

They have more than heart could wish.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression:

They speak loftily.

They have set their mouth in the heavens,

And their tongue walketh through the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart: They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily: They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Their eyes peer out from their fat faces, 

and their imaginations run wild. 

They ridicule. 

They speak maliciously. 

They speak arrogantly about oppression. 

They verbally attack heaven, 

and they order people around on earth. 

Psalm 73:7–9 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

Their eyes bulge out from fatness;

the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

They mock, and they speak maliciously;

they arrogantly threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against heaven,

and their tongues strut across the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — The New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)

Their eyes swell out with fatness;

their hearts overflow with follies.

They scoff and speak with malice;

loftily they threaten oppression.

They set their mouths against heaven,

and their tongues range over the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — The Lexham English Bible (LEB)

Their eye bulges from fat.

Imaginings overflow their heart.

They mock and speak maliciously of oppression;

they speak as though from on high.

They set their mouth against the heavens,

and their tongue roams the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

Many sins come out of their hard and stubborn hearts.

There is no limit to their proud and evil thoughts.

They laugh at others and speak words of hatred.

They are proud. They warn others about the harm they can do to them.

They brag as if they owned heaven itself.

They talk as if they controlled the earth.

Psalm 73:7–9 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

Their eye bulges from fatness;

The imaginations of their heart run riot.

They mock and wickedly speak of oppression;

They speak from on high.

They have set their mouth against the heavens,

And their tongue parades through the earth.


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