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Psalms 73:9

Psalms 73:9 is verse 9 of Psalms chapter 73, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.

Berean Standard Bible

They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

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King James Version

They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

World English Bible

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

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Psalms 73:7–11 · Berean Standard Bible

7 From their prosperity proceeds iniquity; the imaginations of their hearts run wild.

8 They mock and speak with malice; with arrogance they threaten oppression.

9 They set their mouths against the heavens, and their tongues strut across the earth.

10 So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.

11 The wicked say, “How can God know? Does the Most High have knowledge?”

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Cross-references

The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.

Exodus 5:2

But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

2 Chronicles 32:15

So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”

Job 21:14

Yet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.

Daniel 3:15

Now, if you are ready, as soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the statue I have made. But if you refuse to worship, you will be thrown at once into the blazing fiery furnace. Then what god will be able to deliver you from my hands?”

Daniel 7:25

He will speak out against the Most High and oppress the saints of the Most High, intending to change the appointed times and laws; and the saints will be given into his hand for a time, and times, and half a time.

Revelation 13:6

And the beast opened its mouth to speak blasphemies against God and to slander His name and His tabernacle—those who dwell in heaven.

Psalms 52:4

You love every word that devours, O deceitful tongue.

Luke 18:4

For a while he refused, but later he said to himself, ‘Though I neither fear God nor respect men,

James 3:6

The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.

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