Let them melt away as waters which run continually: when he bendeth his bow to shoot his arrows, let them be as cut in pieces.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet them melt away as water that runneth apace: When he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.
May they vanish like water that runs off; when they draw the bow, may their arrows be blunted.
They are melted as waters, They go up and down for themselves, His arrow proceedeth as they cut themselves off.
Let them melt away as waters that flow off; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as blunted:
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.