The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsJehovah will send forth the rod of thy strength out of Zion: Rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: “Rule in the midst of Your enemies.”
The rod of thy strength doth Jehovah send from Zion, Rule in the midst of thine enemies.
Jehovah shall send the sceptre of thy might out of Zion: rule in the midst of thine enemies.
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.