Psalm 94:4

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Summary

Psalm 94:4

How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?

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Boast

Bible References

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Let the lying lips be put to silence, which cruelly, disdainfully, and despitefully speak against the righteous.

Behold, they speak against me with their mouth, and swords are under their lips, for who reproveth them?

who have whet their tongue like a sword, and shoot out their arrows, even bitter words,

They corrupt others, and speak blasphemies maliciously; proud and presumptuous are their words.

They sharpen their tongues like a serpent; adders' poison is under their lips. Selah.

This peoples' teeth are swords, and with their jawbones they consume and devour the simple of the earth, and the poor from among men.

Then said they, "Come, let us imagine something against this Jeremiah." Yea, this did even the priests, to whom the law was committed: the Senators, that were the wisest: and the prophets, which wanted not the word of God. "Come," said they, "let us cut out his tongue, and let us not regard his words."

But when the Pharisees heard that, they said, "This fellow driveth the devils no other wise out, but by the help of Beelzebub the chief of the devils."

Enoch the seventh from Adam prophesied before of such saying, "Behold, the Lord shall come with thousands of saints,

Boast

While the ungodly hath the overhand, the poor must suffer persecution; let them be taken in the crafty wiliness that they have imagined!

{To the Chanter, an exhortation of David when Doeg the Edomite came to Saul, and showed him, saying: David is come to the house of Abimelech} Thy boastest thou thyself, thou tyrant, that thou canst do mischief, whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?

The enemy said, 'I will follow and overtake them, and will divide the spoil: I will satisfy my lust upon them: I will draw my sword, and mine hand shall destroy them.'

They say unto God, 'Go from us: we desire not the knowledge of thy ways!

For he standeth thus in his own conceit: "This do I, through the power of my own hand, and through my wisdom: For I am wise, I am he that removes the lands of the people, I rob their princes: and like one of the worthies I drive them from their high seats.

Thou with thy servants hast blasphemed the LORD and thus holdest thou of thyself, I cover the high mountains, and sides of Lebanon with my horsemen. And there will I cut down the high Cedar trees and the fairest Fir trees. I will up into the height of it, and into the chiefest of his timber woods.

And behold, there came up among them, another like horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked away. Behold, this horn had eyes like a man, and a mouth speaking presumptuous things.

Yea it grew up unto the prince of the host, from whom the daily offering was taken, and the place of his Sanctuary casten down.

The king shall do what him list, he shall exalt and magnify himself against all that is God. Yea, he shall speak marvelous things against the God of all gods, wherein he shall prosper, so long till the wrath be fulfilled, for the conclusion is devised already.

And there was a mouth given unto him that spake great things, and blasphemies, and power was given unto him, to continue forty two months.