Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou makest us to turn back from the adversary; And they that hate us take spoil for themselves.
You have made us retreat from the foe, and those who hate us have plundered us.
Thou causest us to turn backward from an adversary, And those hating us, Have spoiled for themselves.
Thou hast made us to turn back from the adversary, and they that hate us spoil for themselves;
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.