To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTo judge the fatherless and the oppressed, That man who is of the earth may be terrible no more.
to vindicate the fatherless and oppressed, that the men of the earth may strike terror no more.
To judge the fatherless and bruised: He addeth no more to oppress--man of the earth!
To do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed one, that the man of the earth may terrify no more.
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.