Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
They choose to speak against heaven; while they talk about things on earth.
New American Standard Bible
And their tongue
King James Version
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Holman Bible
and their tongues strut across the earth.
A Conservative Version
They have set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
American Standard Version
They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.
Amplified
They set their mouth against the heavens,
And their tongue swaggers through the earth.
Bible in Basic English
Their mouth goes up to heaven; their tongues go walking through the earth.
Darby Translation
They set their mouth in the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Julia Smith Translation
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue will go in the earth.
King James 2000
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue roams the earth.
Modern King James verseion
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walks through the earth.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They stretch forth their mouth unto the heaven, and their tongue goeth through the world.
NET Bible
They speak as if they rule in heaven, and lay claim to the earth.
New Heart English Bible
They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.
The Emphasized Bible
They have set, in the heavens, their mouth, And, their tongue, marcheth through the earth.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 73:9
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Ways Vindicated
8 In their mockery they speak evil; from their arrogant position they speak oppression. 9 They choose to speak against heaven; while they talk about things on earth. 10 Therefore God's people return there and drink it all in like water until they're satiated.
Cross References
Revelation 13:6
It uttered blasphemies against God, against his name, and against his residence, that is, against those who are living in heaven.
Exodus 5:2
Pharaoh said, "Who is the LORD that I should listen to him and let Israel go? I don't know about the LORD, nor will I let Israel go!"
2 Chronicles 32:15
Now therefore, don't let Hezekiah lie to you or mislead you like this. Don't believe him, because no god of any nation has been able to deliver his people from my control or from the control of my predecessors. So how much less will your God deliver you from me?'"
Job 21:14
"They say to God, "Turn away from us! We have no desire to know your ways.
Psalm 52:4
You love all words that destroy, you deceitful tongue!
Daniel 3:15
Now, if you are ready at this very moment to obey "the sound of the trumpet, the flute, the lyre, the four-stringed lyre, and the harp,' and worship the image that I have made" If you do not so worship, you will immediately have cast yourselves into the middle of the blazing fire, and what god is there who can deliver you from my power?"
Daniel 7:25
He'll speak out against the Most High and wear down the saints of the Highest One. He'll attempt to alter times and laws, and they'll be given into his control for a time, times, and half a time.
Luke 18:4
For a while the judge refused. But later, he told himself, "I don't fear God or respect people,
James 3:6
The tongue is a fire, a world of evil. Placed among the parts of our bodies, the tongue contaminates the whole body and sets on fire the course of life, and is itself set on fire by hell.