They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall see them?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey encourage themselves in an evil purpose; They commune of laying snares privily; They say, Who will see them?
They hold fast to their evil purpose; they speak of hiding their snares. “Who will see them?” they say.
They strengthen for themselves an evil thing, They recount of the hiding of snares, They have said, `Who doth look at it?'
They encourage themselves in an evil matter, they concert to hide snares; they say, Who will see them?
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.