Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThen did I beat them small as the dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.
And I beat them as dust before wind, As mire of the streets I empty them out.
And I did beat them small as dust before the wind; I did cast them out as the mire of the streets.
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.