King James Version
Psalms 94:4 in the King James Version says “How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?” — study this verse from Psalms chapter 94 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?”
Psalms 94:4 · KJV
Lift up thyself, thou judge of the earth: render a reward to the proud.
LORD, how long shall the wicked, how long shall the wicked triumph?
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
They break in pieces thy people, O LORD, and afflict thine heritage.
They slay the widow and the stranger, and murder the fatherless.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“How long shall they utter”
H5042to gush forth; figuratively, to utter (good or bad words); specifically, to emit (a foul odor)
“and speak”
H1696perhaps properly, to arrange; but used figuratively (of words), to speak; rarely (in a destructive sense) to subdue
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“and all the workers”
H6466to do or make (systematically and habitually), especially to practise
“of iniquity”
H205strictly nothingness; also trouble, vanity, wickedness; specifically an idol
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