For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; and they talk to the grief of those whom thou hast wounded.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor they persecute him whom thou hast smitten; And they tell of the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
For they persecute the one You struck and recount the pain of those You wounded.
For they have pursued him Thou hast smitten, And recount of the pain of Thy pierced ones.
For they persecute him whom thou hast smitten, and they talk for the sorrow of those whom thou hast wounded.
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.