9They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.


In Context

6 Therefore pride encompasseth them as a neck-chain, violence covereth them as a garment;

7 Their eyes stand out from fatness, they exceed the imaginations of their heart:

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

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

10 Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.

11 And they say, How can God know, and is there knowledge in the Most High?

Psalm 73:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

73:9Their mouths lay claim to heaven, and their tongues take possession of the earth.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

73:9They have set their mouth against heaven: and their tongue hath passed through the earth.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

73:9They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

73:9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

73:9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.