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Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

New American Standard Bible

The wicked strut about on every side
When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

King James Version

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

Holman Bible

The wicked wander everywhere,
and what is worthless is exalted by the human race.

International Standard Version

The wicked, however, keep walking around, exalting the vileness of human beings. To the Director: A Davidic Psalm.

A Conservative Version

The wicked walk on every side when vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

American Standard Version

The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.

Amplified


The wicked strut about [in pompous self-importance] on every side,
As vileness is exalted and baseness is prized among the sons of men.

Bible in Basic English

The sinners are walking on every side, and evil is honoured among the children of men.

Darby Translation

The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.

Julia Smith Translation

The unjust shall walk round about as the rising of a tempest to the sons of man.

King James 2000

The wicked prowl on every side, when vile men are exalted.

Lexham Expanded Bible

[The] wicked prowl about when vileness [is] exalted among [the] children of humankind.

Modern King James verseion

The wicked walk on every side, when vileness is praised by the sons of men.

NET Bible

for the wicked seem to be everywhere, when people promote evil.

New Heart English Bible

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men.

The Emphasized Bible

On every side, the lawless, march about, - when worthlessness is exalted by the sons of men.

Webster

The wicked walk on every side, when the vilest men are exalted.

World English Bible

The wicked walk on every side, when what is vile is exalted among the sons of men. For the Chief Musician. A Psalm by David.

Youngs Literal Translation

Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!

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Context Readings

Oppression By The Wicked

7 Keep them therefore, O LORD, and preserve us from this generation for ever. 8 The ungodly walk on every side; when they are exalted, the children of men are put to rebuke.

Cross References

Judges 9:18-57

and ye are risen up against my father's house this day. And have slain his children, even seventy persons upon one stone and have made Abimelech - the son of his maidservant - king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your brother.

1 Samuel 18:17-18

Then said Saul to David, "Behold, my eldest daughter Merab: her I will give thee to wife; only play the man and fight the LORD's battles." For Saul thought, "Mine hand shall not be upon him, but the hand of the Philistines."

Esther 3:6-15

and thought it too little to lay hands only on Mordecai: for they had showed him the nation of Mordecai. Wherefore, he sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole empire of Ahasuerus and were of the nation of Mordecai.

Job 30:8

They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.

Psalm 55:10-11

This goeth day and night about the walls; mischief and vice are in the midst of it.

Proverbs 29:12

If a prince delight in lies, all his servants are ungodly.

Isaiah 32:4-6

The heart of the unwise shall attain to knowledge, and the imperfect tongue shall speak plainly and distinctly.

Daniel 11:21

"In his stead there shall arise a vile person, not holden worthy of a king's dignity: this shall come in craftily, and obtain the kingdom with fair words.

Hosea 5:11

Ephraim is oppressed, and can have no right of the law. For why? They follow the doctrines of men.

Micah 6:16

Ye keep the ordinances of Omri, and all the customs of the house of Ahab: Ye follow their pleasures, therefore will I make thee waste, and cause thy inhabiters to be abhorred, O my people: and thus shalt thou bear thine own shame.

Mark 14:63-65

Then the highest priest rent his clothes and said, "What need we any further of witness?

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