Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from the Lord, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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4 additional translationsThis is the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, And of them that speak evil against my soul.
May this be the LORD’s reward to my accusers, to those who speak evil against me.
This is the wage of mine accusers from Jehovah, And of those speaking evil against my soul.
Let this be the reward of mine adversaries from Jehovah, and of them that speak evil against my soul.
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.