所以，骄傲如链子戴在他们的项上；强暴像衣裳遮住他们的身体。

所以，骄傲如链子戴在他们项上，残暴像衣裳覆盖在他们身上。

所以，骄傲如链子戴在他们项上，残暴像衣裳覆盖在他们身上。

他们把骄傲作项链戴在颈上，把暴力作外袍裹在身上。

所以，骄傲像链子戴在他们的颈项上，强暴好像衣裳穿在他们的身上。

因此自高是他们的项链，残暴如衣裳披在他们的身上。

所以，驕傲如鏈子戴在他們的項上；強暴像衣裳遮住他們的身體。

所以，驕傲如鏈子戴在他們項上，殘暴像衣裳覆蓋在他們身上。

所以，驕傲如鏈子戴在他們項上，殘暴像衣裳覆蓋在他們身上。

他們把驕傲作項鏈戴在頸上，把暴力作外袍裹在身上。

所以，驕傲像鍊子戴在他們的頸項上，強暴好像衣裳穿在他們的身上。

因此驕傲就做了他們的脖鍊兒；強暴的外披也遮住他們。

因此自高是他們的項鏈，殘暴如衣裳披在他們的身上。

故驕肆如鏈懸其項、暴戾如服蔽其體兮、

故彼厥志驕肆、厥心剛愎、如懸金索、如衣麗服兮、

故以驕傲為飾項之妝、以強暴為蔽身之服、

佩驕以為飾。擁暴以為服。

Therefore pride is their necklace; they clothe themselves with violence.

Their pride is like a necklace. They put on meanness as if it were their clothes.

Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.

They wear pride like a jeweled necklace and clothe themselves with cruelty.

Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

Therefore arrogance is their necklace; The garment of violence covers them.

Therefore pride serves as their necklace; Violence covers them like a garment.

Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck; Violence covereth them as a garment.

Therefore, pride is their necklace, and violence covers them like a garment.

Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them[ as] a garment.

Arrogance is their necklace, and violence their clothing.

Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.

He wore cursing as his garment; it entered into his body like water, into his bones like oil. (niv)

The weight of the gold rings he asked for came to seventeen hundred shekels, not counting the ornaments, the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian or the chains that were on their camels’ necks. (niv)

They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. (niv)

You have stolen my heart, my sister, my bride; you have stolen my heart with one glance of your eyes, with one jewel of your necklace. (niv)

Haman went out that day happy and in high spirits. But when he saw Mordecai at the king’s gate and observed that he neither rose nor showed fear in his presence, he was filled with rage against Mordecai.Nevertheless, Haman restrained himself and went home. Calling together his friends and Zeresh, his wife,Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials. (niv)

After these events, King Xerxes honored Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, elevating him and giving him a seat of honor higher than that of all the other nobles. (niv)

Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty.You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you. (niv)

“ Moab has been at rest from youth, like wine left on its dregs, not poured from one jar to another— she has not gone into exile. So she tastes as she did, and her aroma is unchanged. (niv)

May my accusers be clothed with disgrace and wrapped in shame as in a cloak. (niv)

Do not envy the violent or choose any of their ways. (niv)

Woe to those who plan iniquity, to those who plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they carry it out because it is in their power to do it.They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance. (niv)

“ Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre,‘ This is what the Sovereign Lord says:“‘ In the pride of your heart you say,“ I am a god; I sit on the throne of a god in the heart of the seas.” But you are a mere mortal and not a god, though you think you are as wise as a god.Are you wiser than Daniel? Is no secret hidden from you?By your wisdom and understanding you have gained wealth for yourself and amassed gold and silver in your treasuries.By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and because of your wealth your heart has grown proud. (niv)

he said,“ Is not this the great Babylon I have built as the royal residence, by my mighty power and for the glory of my majesty?” (niv)

“ We have heard of Moab’s pride— how great is her arrogance!— of her insolence, her pride, her conceit and the haughtiness of her heart. (niv)

When Haman saw that Mordecai would not kneel down or pay him honor, he was enraged.Yet having learned who Mordecai’s people were, he scorned the idea of killing only Mordecai. Instead Haman looked for a way to destroy all Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the whole kingdom of Xerxes. (niv)

Jeshurun grew fat and kicked; filled with food, they became heavy and sleek. They abandoned the God who made them and rejected the Rock their Savior. (niv)

This is what the Lord says:“ As for the prophets who lead my people astray, they proclaim‘ peace’ if they have something to eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to feed them. (niv)

Why do the wicked live on, growing old and increasing in power?They see their children established around them, their offspring before their eyes.Their homes are safe and free from fear; the rod of God is not on them.Their bulls never fail to breed; their cows calve and do not miscarry.They send forth their children as a flock; their little ones dance about.They sing to the music of timbrel and lyre; they make merry to the sound of the pipe.They spend their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.Yet they say to God,‘ Leave us alone! We have no desire to know your ways.Who is the Almighty, that we should serve him? What would we gain by praying to him?’ (niv)

They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of violence. (niv)

and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied,then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. (niv)

I adorned you with jewelry: I put bracelets on your arms and a necklace around your neck, (niv)

Then Pharaoh took his signet ring from his finger and put it on Joseph’s finger. He dressed him in robes of fine linen and put a gold chain around his neck. (niv)

When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, people’s hearts are filled with schemes to do wrong. (niv)

In the same way, you who are younger, submit yourselves to your elders. All of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because,“ God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble.” (niv)

the earrings and bracelets and veils, (niv)