Let the proud be ashamed; for they dealt perversely with me without a cause: but I will meditate in thy precepts.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet the proud be put to shame; for they have overthrown me wrongfully: ButI will meditate on thy precepts.
May the arrogant be put to shame for subverting me with a lie; I will meditate on Your precepts.
Ashamed are the proud, For with falsehood they dealt perversely with me. I meditate in Thy precepts.
Let the proud be ashamed; for they have acted perversely towards me with falsehood: as for me, I meditate in thy precepts.
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.