For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the Lord abhorreth.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, And the covetous renounceth, yea, contemneth Jehovah.
For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
Because the wicked hath boasted Of the desire of his soul, And a dishonest gainer he hath blessed, He hath despised Jehovah.
For the wicked boasteth of his soul's desire, and he blesseth the covetous; he contemneth Jehovah.
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.