Psalm 73:8 {72:8}
Good News Translation
They laugh at other people and speak of evil things; they are proud and make plans to oppress others.

New Revised Standard Version
They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression.

Contemporary English Version
They sneer and say cruel things, and because of their pride, they make violent threats.

New American Bible
They scoff and spout their malice; from on high they utter threats.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.

corrupt

Psalm 53:1-4 Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God. [2] They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good. . . .

Proverbs 30:13,14 A generation, whose eyes are lofty, and their eyelids lifted up on high. . . .

speak wickedly

Psalm 10:2,10,11 Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise. . . .

Psalm 12:4,5 Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us? . . .

Exodus 1:9,10 And he said to his people: Behold the people of the children of Israel are numerous and stronger than we. . . .

1 Samuel 13:19 Now there was no smith to be found in all the land of Israel, for the Philistines had taken this precaution, lest the Hebrews should make them swords or spears.

1 Kings 21:7 Then Jezabel, his wife, said to him. Thou art of great authority indeed, and governest well the kingdom of Israel. Arise, and eat bread, and be of good cheer; I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth, the Jezrahelite.

Jeremiah 7:9-11 To steal, to murder, to commit adultery, to swear falsely, to offer to Baalim, and to go after strange gods, which you know not. . . .

Hosea 7:16 They returned, that they might be without yoke: they became like a deceitful bow: their princes shall fall by the sword, for the rage of their tongue. This is their derision in the land of Egypt.

speak loftily

2 Peter 2:10 And especially them who walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness and despise government: audacious, self willed, they fear not to bring in sects, blaspheming.

Jude 1:16 These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

Context
Endow the King with Your Justice
7Their iniquity hath come forth, as it were from fatness: they have passed into the affection of the heart. 8They have thought and spoken wickedness: they have spoken iniquity on high.9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.…
Cross References
James 3:5
Even so the tongue is indeed a little member and boasteth great things. Behold how small a fire kindleth a great wood.

2 Peter 2:18
For, speaking proud words of vanity, they allure by the desires of fleshly riotousness those who for a little while escape, such as converse in error:

Jude 1:16
These are murmurers, full of complaints, walking according to their own desires: and their mouth speaketh proud things, admiring persons, for gain's sake.

Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man who hath not walked in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stood in the way of sinners, nor sat in the chair of pestilence:

Psalm 10:2
Whilst the wicked man is proud, the poor is set on fire: they are caught in the counsels which they devise.

Psalm 10:7
His mouth is full of cursing, and of bitterness, and of deceit: under his tongue are labor and sorrow.

Psalm 12:4
Who have said: We will magnify our tongue: our lips are our own: who is Lord over us?

Psalm 17:10
They have shut up their fat: their mouth hath spoken proudly.

Ezekiel 7:11
Iniquity is risen up into a rod of impiety: nothing of them shall remain, nor of their people, nor of the noise of them: and there shall be no rest among them.

Psalm 73:7
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