They speak vanity every one with his neighbour: with flattering lips and with a double heart do they speak.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey speak falsehood every one with his neighbor: With flattering lip, and with a double heart, do they speak.
They lie to one another; they speak with flattering lips and a double heart.
Vanity they speak each with his neighbour, Lip of flattery! With heart and heart they speak.
They speak falsehood every one with his neighbour: [with] flattering lip, with a double heart, do they speak.
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.