Fools because of their transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.
Fools, in their rebellious ways, and through their iniquities, suffered affliction.
Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.
Fools, because of their way of transgression, and because of their iniquities, are afflicted;
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.