Psalms 139:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 139:5

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me.

KJV

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ASV

Thou hast beset me behind and before, And laid thy hand upon me.

WEB

You hem me in behind and before; You have laid Your hand upon me.

YLT

Behind and before Thou hast besieged me, And Thou dost place on me Thy hand.

DBT

Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thy hand upon me.

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Psalms — 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.

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6 verses on the floor

Psalms 34:7
The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
Deuteronomy 33:27
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee; and shall say, Destroy them.
Revelation 1:17
And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:
Job 23:8–9
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:
Exodus 24:11
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

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Job 9:33

Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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