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Psalm 73

Psa. 73:8 KJV (With Strong’s)

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They are corrupt
muwq (Hebrew #4167)
to jeer, i.e. (intens.) blaspheme
KJV usage: be corrupt.
Pronounce: mook
Origin: a primitive root
, and speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
wickedly
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
concerning oppression
`osheq (Hebrew #6233)
injury, fraud, (subjectively) distress, (concretely) unjust gain
KJV usage: cruelly, extortion, oppression, thing (deceitfully gotten).
Pronounce: o'-shek
Origin: from 6231
: they speak
dabar (Hebrew #1696)
perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
KJV usage: answer, appoint, bid, command, commune, declare, destroy, give, name, promise, pronounce, rehearse, say, speak, be spokesman, subdue, talk, teach, tell, think, use (entreaties), utter, X well, X work.
Pronounce: daw-bar'
Origin: a primitive root
c loftily
marowm (Hebrew #4791)
altitude, i.e. concretely (an elevated place), abstractly (elevation, figuratively (elation), or adverbially (aloft)
KJV usage: (far) above, dignity, haughty, height, (most, on) high (one, place), loftily, upward.
Pronounce: maw-rome'
Origin: from 7311
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Cross References

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Ministry on This Verse

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corrupt.
speak wickedly.
Psa. 10:2,10‑11• 2In the pride of the wicked he doth hotly pursue the poor;{HR}They are taken in the very devices they devised.
10And he is crushed, he is brought low,{HR}The wretched hath fallen by his might.
11He hath said in his heart, God hath forgotten,{HR}He hath hidden his face;{HR}He will not see forever.
(Psa. 10:2,10‑11)
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Psa. 12:4‑5• 4Which have said, With our tongue will we be mighty;{HR}Our lips are our own: who is lord to us?
5Because of the oppression of the afflicted,{HR}Because of the groaning of the needy,{HR}Now will I arise, saith Jehovah;{HR}I will place in safety [from] him that puffeth at him.
(Psa. 12:4‑5)
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Ex. 1:9‑10• 9And he said to his people, Behold, the people of the children of Israel [are] more numerous and stronger than we.
10Come, let us deal wisely with them, lest they multiply, and it come to pass that, if war occur, they take side also with our enemies and fight against us, and go up out of the land.
(Ex. 1:9‑10)
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1 Sam. 13:19• 19{i}Now there was no smith found throughout the land of Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords or spears.{/i} (1 Sam. 13:19)
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1 Kings 21:7‑29• 7{i}And Jezebel his wife said to him, Dost thou now exercise sovereignty over Israel? arise, eat bread, and let thy heart be glad: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite.{/i}
8{i}And she wrote a letter in Ahab's name, and sealed it with his seal, and sent the letter to the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.{/i}
9{i}And she wrote in the letter saying, Proclaim a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people;{/i}
10{i}and set two men, sons of Belial, before him, and they shall bear witness against him saying, Thou didst curse God and the king; and carry him out, and stone him, that he may die.{/i}
11{i}And the men of his city, the elders and the nobles that dwelt in his city, did as Jezebel had sent to them, as it was written in the letter that she had sent to them:{/i}
12{i}they proclaimed a fast, and set Naboth at the head of the people.{/i}
13{i}And there came the two men, sons of Belial, and sat before him; and the men of Belial witnessed against him, against Naboth, in the presence of the people, saying, Naboth blasphemed God and the king. And they carried him forth out of the city, and stoned him with stones, that he died.{/i}
14{i}And they sent to Jezebel saying, Naboth is stoned, and is dead.{/i}
15{i}And it came to pass when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.{/i}
16{i}And it came to pass when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jizreelite, to take possession of it.{/i}
17{i}And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,{/i}
18Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, which is in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to possess it.
19And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Hast thou killed, and also taken possession? And thou shalt speak unto him, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine.
20And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee: because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of Jehovah.
21Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab every man child, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,
22and will make thine house like the house of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, and like the house of Baasha the son of Ahijah, for the provocation wherewith thou hast provoked me to anger, and made Israel to sin.
23And of Jezebel also spake Jehovah, saying, The dogs shall eat Jezebel by the wall of Jezreel.
24Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.
25{i}(Surely there was none like to Ahab, who did sell himself to do evil in the sight of Jehovah, Jezebel his wife urging him on.{/i}
26{i}And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all that the Amorites did, whom Jehovah had dispossessed before the children of Israel.){/i}
27{i}And it came to pass when Ahab heard these words, that he rent his garments, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.{/i}
28{i}And the word of Jehovah came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,{/i}
29{i}Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: in his son's days will I bring the evil upon his house.{/i}
(1 Kings 21:7‑29)
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Jer. 7:9‑11• 9Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;
10and come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?
11Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith Jehovah.
(Jer. 7:9‑11)
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Hos. 7:16• 16They 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. (Hos. 7:16)
speak loftily.
 In words they speak with lofty contempt of others. (Psalms 73 by H. Smith)

J. N. Darby Translation

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They mock and speak wickedly of oppression, they speak loftily:

W. Kelly Translation

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They mock and speak wickedly of oppression;{HR}From on high they speak.