There brake he the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle. Selah.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThere he brake the arrows of the bow; The shield, and the sword, and the battle. [Selah
There He shattered the flaming arrows, the shield and sword and weapons of war. Selah
There he hath shivered arrows of a bow, Shield, and sword, and battle. Selah.
There broke he the flashings of the bow, shield and sword and battle. Selah.
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.