Our bones are scattered at the grave’s mouth, as when one cutteth and cleaveth wood upon the earth.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAs when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
As when one plows and breaks up the soil, so our bones have been scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
As one tilling and ripping up in the land, Have our bones been scattered at the command of Saul.
Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol, as when one cutteth and cleaveth [wood] upon the earth.
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.