They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey search out iniquities; We have accomplished, say they, a diligent search: And the inward thought and the heart of every one is deep.
They devise injustice and say, “We have perfected a secret plan.” For the inner man and the heart are mysterious.
They search out perverse things, `We perfected a searching search,' And the inward part of man, and the heart are deep.
They devise iniquities: We have it ready, the plan is diligently sought out. And each one's inward [thought] and heart is deep.
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.