thus saith the king, Let not Hezeki´ah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
Psalm 73:8 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: They speak loftily. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They scoff, and wickedly utter oppression; they speak loftily [from on high, maliciously and blasphemously]. American Standard Version (1901) They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily. Common English Bible They scoff and talk so cruel; from their privileged positions they plan oppression. Catholic Public Domain Version They have said in their heart, the whole group of them together: "Let us cause all the feast days of God to cease from the land. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They said in their heart, the whole kindred of them together: Let us abolish all the festival days of God from the land. |
thus saith the king, Let not Hezeki´ah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you out of his hand:
The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
They are inclosed in their own fat: with their mouth they speak proudly.
Thus with your mouth ye have boasted against me, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard them.
They return, but not to the Most High: they are like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword for the rage of their tongue: this shall be their derision in the land of Egypt.
but chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.
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.
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.
Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears: