When I cry unto thee, then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God is for me.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThen shall mine enemies turn back in the day that I call: This I know, that God is for me.
Then my enemies will retreat on the day I cry for help. By this I will know that God is on my side.
Then turn back do mine enemies in the day I call. This I have known, that God is for me.
Then shall mine enemies return backward in the day when I call: this I know, forGod is for me.
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.