Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The wicked watcheth the righteous, And seeketh to slay him.
WEB
Though the wicked lie in wait for the righteous, and seek to slay them,
YLT
The wicked is watching for the righteous, And is seeking to put him to death.
DBT
The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him:
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.