The wicked in his pride doth persecute the poor: let them be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsIn the pride of the wicked the poor is hotly pursued; Let them be taken in the devices that they have conceived.
In pride the wicked pursue the needy; let them be caught in the schemes they devise.
Through the pride of the wicked, Is the poor inflamed, They are caught in devices that they devised.
The wicked, in his pride, doth hotly pursue the afflicted. They shall be taken in the devices that they have imagined.
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.