MANNAFEST

Thus were they defiled with their own works, and went a whoring with their own inventions.

KJV

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4 additional translations
ASV

Thus were they defiled with their works, And played the harlot in their doings.

WEB

They defiled themselves by their actions and prostituted themselves by their deeds.

YLT

And they are defiled with their works, And commit whoredom in their habitual doings.

DBT

And they were defiled with their works, and went a-whoring in their doings.

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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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