He shall redeem their soul from deceit and violence: and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe will redeem their soul from oppression and violence; And precious will their blood be in his sight:
He will redeem their souls from oppression and violence, and precious shall their blood be in his sight.
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
From fraud and from violence he redeemeth their soul, And precious is their blood in his eyes.
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.