Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
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Gill's Exposition
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain, Which was the sin of the devils, and of our first parents, and of Sodom, and is the sin of antichrist; and which, of all sins, is most hateful to God;…
Barnes' Notes
Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain - Therefore they are proud, haughty, imperious. They put on the ornaments and trappings of pride; their clothing and their adorning all are indicative…
This psalm begins somewhat abruptly: Yet God is good to Israel (so the margin reads it); he had been thinking of the prosperity of the wicked; while he was thus musing the fire burned, and at last he…
They have no share in the misery of mortals;
Neither are they plagued along with other men:
Therefore pride is as a chain about their neck;
Violence covereth them as a garment.
Though "man is born…
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