Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies; that I might destroy them that hate me.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.
You have made my enemies retreat before me; I put an end to those who hated me.
As to mine enemies--Thou hast given to me the neck, As to those hating me--I cut them off.
And mine enemies didst thou make to turn their backs unto me, and those that hated me I destroyed.
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.