When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; it is that they shall be destroyed for ever:
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4 additional translationsWhen the wicked spring as the grass, And when all the workers of iniquity do flourish; It is that they shall be destroyed for ever.
that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.
When the wicked flourish as a herb, And blossom do all workers of iniquity--For their being destroyed for ever and ever!
When the wicked spring as the grass, and when all the workers of iniquity flourish, it is that they may be destroyed for ever.
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.