The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance: He shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked;
The righteous will rejoice when they see they are avenged; they will wash their feet in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous rejoiceth that he hath seen vengeance, His steps he washeth in the blood of the wicked.
The righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance; he shall wash his footsteps in the blood of the wicked:
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.