But mine enemies are lively, and they are strong: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBut mine enemies are lively, they are strong; and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied:
But mine enemies are lively, and are strong; And they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
Many are my enemies without cause, and many hate me without reason.
And mine enemies are lively, They have been strong, and those hating me without cause, Have been multiplied.
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.