Psalms 37:12 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 37:12

The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

KJV

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ASV

The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.

WEB

The wicked scheme against the righteous and gnash their teeth at them,

YLT

The wicked is devising against the righteous, And gnashing against him his teeth.

DBT

The wicked plotteth against the righteous, and gnasheth his teeth against him.

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Psalms — 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.

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Isaiah 54:15
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
Matthew 5:10
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Micah 2:1
Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
Psalms 35:16
With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
Psalms 7:16
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.

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, 18, 19, 22-25, 28, 29, 37 . He prescribes very good remedies against this sin of envying the prosperity of the wicked, and great encouragement to use those remedies,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is true the wicked plotteth against the just; there is a rooted enmity in the seed of the wicked one against the righteous seed; their aim is, if they can, to destroy their righteousness, or, if that fail, then to destroy them.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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