Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsJudge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: Oh deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.
Vindicate me, O God, and plead my case against an ungodly nation; deliver me from deceitful and unjust men.
Judge me, O God, And plead my cause against a nation not pious, From a man of deceit and perverseness Thou dost deliver me,
Judge me, OGod, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation; deliver me from the deceitful and unrighteous man.
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.