Psalm 73 Verse Mapping (verses 7 & 8)

 

"Their eyes swell out through fatness; their hearts overflow with follies.

They scoff and speak with malice; loftily they threaten oppression."

Psalm 73:7-8

DESIGN:

"Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have ore than heart could wish.  They are corrupt, and speak wickedly concerning oppression: they speak loftily." (KJV)

"Their eye bulges from fatness; The imaginations of their heart overflow.  They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; they speak from on high." (NASB)

"Their eye bulges from fatness [they have more than the heart desires]; the imagination of their mind run riot [with foolishness].  They mock and wickedly speak of oppression; they speak loftily [with malice]." (AMP)

DEVELOPMENT:

Verse 7:

maskith = showpiece, figure, imagination, carved image, conceit, imagery, picture, wish

abar = to pass over, through, or by, pass on

Verse 8:

muq = to mock, deride **this is the only place in Scripture where this word is used**

ra = evil, distress, misery, injury, calamity

marom = height *speak as if from the the sky, from heaven, so arrogantly*

osheq = oppression, extortion, thing deceitfully gotten

FIND:

Proverbs 19:3 - "When a man's folly brings his way to ruin, his heart rages against the LORD."

Jeremiah 5:28 - "They have grown fat and sleek.  They know no bounds in deeds of evil; they judge not with justice the cause of the fatherless, to make it prosper, and the do not defend the rights of the needy."

Psalm 17:10 - "They close their hearts to pity; with their mouths they speak arrogantly."

MANKIND:

Pride builds in the heart of mankind; it overflows in conceit, it is their idol.  Mankind, trusts in what they have; in what they can do. They have such a high opinion of themselves.  They speak as if they have the place of heaven; boasting of what they have gotten deceitfully and oppressing others.

ASK/APPLICATION:

This is a stark warning of the depravity that occurs when pride rules in our hearts.  We can become so full of ourselves and our own opinions that we end up hurting and oppressing others. Our opinions and all we have become idols to us.  We place our trust in ourselves and in our opinions rather than trusting what God has said. 

PRAYER:

Oh God, fill me with a humble spirit.  Forgive me for trusting in my own opinions, in my prideful heart.  Forgive me for the times I thought I knew better and ended up hurting those around me. Turn my heart from those areas of pride.  God You have given us all we need in Your word; may we trust in what You have said and not be so full of ourselves that we become depraved in our thinking. God we need you!  Amen.