For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be.
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4 additional translationsFor yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: Yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and he shall not be.
Yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more; though you look for them, they will not be found.
And yet a little, and the wicked is not, And thou hast considered his place, and it is not.
For yet a little while, and the wicked is not; and thou considerest his place, but he is not.
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.