Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the Lord hath heard the voice of my weeping.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDepart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; For Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for the LORD has heard my weeping.
Turn from me all ye workers of iniquity, For Jehovah heard the voice of my weeping,
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for Jehovah hath heard the voice of my weeping.
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.