The proud have forged a lie against me: but I will keep thy precepts with my whole heart.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The proud have forged a lie against me: With my whole heart will I keep thy precepts.
WEB
Though the arrogant have smeared me with lies, I keep Your precepts with all my heart.
YLT
Forged against me falsehood have the proud, I with the whole heart keep Thy precepts.
DBT
The proud have forged falsehood against me: I will observe thy precepts with [my] whole heart.
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.