Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Kings of armies flee, they flee; And she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
WEB
“Kings and their armies flee in haste; she who waits at home divides the plunder.
YLT
Kings of hosts flee utterly away, And a female inhabitant of the house apportioneth spoil.
DBT
Kings of armies flee; they flee, and she that tarrieth at home divideth the spoil.
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.