Lift up thy feet unto the perpetual desolations; even all that the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLift up thy feet unto the perpetual ruins, All the evil that the enemy hath done in the sanctuary.
Turn Your steps to the everlasting ruins, to everything in the sanctuary the enemy has destroyed.
Lift up Thy steps to the perpetual desolations, Everything the enemy did wickedly in the sanctuary.
Lift up thy steps unto the perpetual desolations: everything in the sanctuary hath the enemy destroyed.
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.