His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
His trouble recoils on himself, and his violence falls on his own head.
ASV
His mischief shall return upon his own head, And his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
YLT
Return doth his perverseness on his head, And on his crown his violence cometh down.
DBT
His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violence shall come down upon his own pate.
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.