They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; and his enemies shall lick the dust.
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
They that dwell in the wilderness shall bow before him; And his enemies shall lick the dust.
YLT
Before him bow do the inhabitants of the dry places, And his enemies lick the dust.
DBT
The dwellers in the desert shall bow before him, and his enemies shall lick the dust.
WEB
May the nomads bow before him, and his enemies lick the dust.
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.