MANNAFEST

For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

KJV

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ASV

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol; Neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption.

WEB

For You will not abandon my soul to Sheol, nor will You let Your Holy One see decay.

YLT

For Thou dost not leave my soul to Sheol, Nor givest thy saintly one to see corruption.

DBT

For thou wilt not leave my soul to Sheol, neither wilt thou allow thy Holy One to see corruption.

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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