Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
If one does not repent, God will sharpen His sword; He has bent and strung His bow.
YLT
If one turn not, His sword he sharpeneth, His bow he hath trodden--He prepareth it,
ASV
If a man turn not, he will whet his sword; He hath bent his bow, and made it ready;
DBT
If one turn not, he will sharpen his sword; he hath bent his bow and made it ready,
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.