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Psalms 94:4
4They pour out words, speaking arrogant things; All who do evil boast proudly.
Psalms 94:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
- New International Version (NIV)They pour out arrogant words; all the evildoers are full of boasting.
- English Standard Version (ESV)They pour out their arrogant words; all the evildoers boast.
- New King James Version (NKJV)They utter speech, and speak insolent things; All the workers of iniquity boast in themselves.
Context of Psalms 94:4
2Rise up, O Judge of the earth; Give to the proud a fitting compensation. 3O Lord, how long will the wicked, How long will the wicked rejoice in triumph? They pour out words, speaking arrogant things; All who do evil boast proudly. 5They crush Your people, O Lord, And afflict and abuse Your heritage. 6They kill the widow and the alien And murder the fatherless.
Read all of Psalms 94Psalms 94:4 word by word
יַבִּ֣יעוּ יְדַבְּר֣וּ עָתָ֑ק יִֽ֝תְאַמְּר֗וּ כָּל־פֹּ֥עֲלֵי אָֽוֶן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 94:4
- Psalms 31:18Let the lying lips be mute, Which speak insolently and arrogantly against the [consistently] righteous With pride and contempt.
- Psalms 59:7Look how they belch out [insults] with their mouths; Swords [of sarcasm, ridicule, slander, and lies] are in their lips, For they say, “Who hears us?”
- Psalms 64:3Who have sharpened their tongues like a sword. They aim venomous words as arrows,
- Psalms 73:8They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; They speak loftily [with malice].
- Psalms 140:3They sharpen their tongues like a serpent’s; Poison of a viper is under their lips. Selah.
- Proverbs 30:14There is a generation (class of people) whose teeth are like swords And whose jaw teeth are like knives, To devour the afflicted from the earth And the needy from among men.
- Jeremiah 18:18Then [my enemies] said, “Come and let us work out schemes against Jeremiah. Surely the law is not going to be lost to the priest [as Jeremiah predicts], nor the counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come and let us strike him with our tongue [by making charges against him before the king], and let us ignore anything he says.”
- Matthew 12:24But the Pharisees heard it and said, “This man casts out demons only by [the help of] Beelzebul (Satan) the prince of the demons.”
- Jude 1:14It was about these people that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, when he said, “Look, the Lord came with myriads of His holy ones
- Psalms 10:2In pride and arrogance the wicked hotly pursue and persecute the afflicted; Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised.
- Psalms 52:1Why do you boast of evil, O mighty man? The lovingkindness of God endures all day long.
- Exodus 15:9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; My desire shall be satisfied against them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall dispossess them and drive them out.’
- Job 21:14Yet they say to God, ‘Depart from us, For we do not desire the knowledge of Your ways.
- Isaiah 10:13For the Assyrian king has said, “I have done this by the power of my [own] hand and by my wisdom, For I have understanding and skill. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples And have plundered their treasures; Like a bull I have brought down those who sat on thrones.
- Isaiah 37:24Through your servants you have taunted and defied the Lord, And you have said, ‘With my many chariots I have gone up to the heights of the mountains, To the remotest parts of Lebanon. I cut down its tallest cedars and its choicest cypress trees; And I will go to its remotest height, its most luxuriant and thickest forest.
- Daniel 7:8While I was considering the horns, behold, there came up among them another horn, a little one, and three of the first horns were pulled up by the roots before it; and behold, in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and a mouth boasting of great things.
Commentaries on Psalms 94:4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4They utter and speak - יביאו yabbiu, their hearts get full of pride and insolence; and then, from the abundance of such vile hearts, the mouth speaks; and the speech is of hard things, threatening which they are determined to execute, boastings of their power, authority, etc.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4How long shall they utter and speak hard things? - The word rendered utter means to pour forth - as water from a fountain; to pour forth copiously. The meaning is, that they seemed to be full, and that they poured forth evil words as a fountain pours forth water. The phrase “hard things” means proud, unfeeling, insolent things; things which are unjust, unkind, severe, harsh. And all the workers of iniquity boast themselves? - Boast of their power and…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-7After the community suffers at the hands of the wicked (Psalm 94:5–7), they pray for the Lord to bring justice (see Psalm 7:11; 9:12).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. In an earnest expostulation he expresses his desire that the insolent triumph of the wicked may be ended.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 94
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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