They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey gather themselves together, they hide themselves, They mark my steps, Even as they have waited for my soul.
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
They assemble, they hide, they watch my heels, When they have expected my soul.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves; they mark my steps, because they wait for my soul.
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.