Psalm 36:1
Modern Translations
New International Version
For the director of music. Of David the servant of the LORD. I have a message from God in my heart concerning the sinfulness of the wicked: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

New Living Translation
Sin whispers to the wicked, deep within their hearts. They have no fear of God at all.

English Standard Version
Transgression speaks to the wicked deep in his heart; there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Berean Study Bible
For the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD. An oracle is in my heart regarding the transgression of the wicked man: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

New American Standard Bible
For the music director. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. Wrongdoing speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes.

NASB 1995
For the choir director. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes.

NASB 1977
Transgression speaks to the ungodly within his heart; There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Amplified Bible
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaks [like an oracle] to the wicked (godless) [deep] within his heart; There is no fear (dread) of God before his eyes.

Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. Of David, the L ord ’s servant. An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked person: Dread of God has no effect on him.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
For the choir director. A psalm of David, the LORD's servant. An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked person: There is no dread of God before his eyes,

Contemporary English Version
Sinners don't respect God; sin is all they think about.

Good News Translation
Sin speaks to the wicked deep in their hearts; they reject God and do not have reverence for him.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
[For the choir director; by David, the LORD's servant.] There is an inspired truth about the wicked person who has rebellion in the depths of his heart: He is not terrified of God.

International Standard Version
An oracle that came to me about the transgressions of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

NET Bible
For the music director; written by the LORD's servant, David; an oracle. An evil man is rebellious to the core. He does not fear God,
Classic Translations
King James Bible
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

New King James Version
To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked: There is no fear of God before his eyes.

King James 2000 Bible
The transgression of the wicked says within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

New Heart English Bible
[For the Chief Musician. By David, the servant of the LORD.] Transgression speaks to the wicked within his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

World English Bible
An oracle is within my heart about the disobedience of the wicked: "There is no fear of God before his eyes."

American King James Version
The transgression of the wicked said within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

American Standard Version
The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

A Faithful Version
The wicked utters transgression in his heart. There is no fear of God before his eyes,

Darby Bible Translation
{To the chief Musician. [A Psalm] of the servant of Jehovah; of David.} The transgression of the wicked uttereth within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

English Revised Version
For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Webster's Bible Translation
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David the servant of the LORD. The transgression of the wicked saith within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid, the seruant of the Lord. Wickednes sayeth to the wicked man, euen in mine heart, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
To the chiefe musition, seruaunt to the God of Dauid. The wickednes of the vngodly speaketh in the middest of my heart: that there is no feare of the Lorde before his eyes.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
My hert sheweth me the wickednesse of the vngodly, that there is no feare of God before his eyes.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
TO THE OVERSEER. BY A SERVANT OF YHWH, BY DAVID. The transgression of the wicked "" Is affirming within my heart, “Fear of God is not before his eyes,

Young's Literal Translation
To the Overseer. -- By a servant of Jehovah, by David. The transgression of the wicked Is affirming within my heart, 'Fear of God is not before his eyes,

Smith's Literal Translation
To the overseer, to the servant of Jehovah: to David. A song of transgression to the unjust one in the midst of my heart, no fear of God before his eyes.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Unto the end, for the servant of God, David himself. The unjust hath said within himself, that he would sin : there is no fear of God before his eyes.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Unto the end. To the servant of the Lord, David himself. The unjust one has said within himself that he would commit offenses. There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
The wicked conceives evil in his heart because the awesomeness of God is not before his eyes.

Lamsa Bible
THE unjust conceives wickedness within his heart, for there is no fear of God before his eyes.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
For the Leader. [A Psalm] of David the servant of the LORD. Transgression speaketh to the wicked, methinks-- There is no fear of God before his eyes.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
For the end, by David the servant of the Lord. The transgressor, that he may sin, says within himself, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.
















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