Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The wicked walk on every side, When vileness is exalted among the sons of men.
WEB
The wicked wander freely, and vileness is exalted among men.
YLT
Around the wicked walk continually, According as vileness is exalted by sons of men!
DBT
The wicked walk about on every side, when vileness is exalted among the children of men.
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentPsalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.
- Author
- David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
- Date
- Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.