They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey have set thy sanctuary on fire; They have profaned the dwelling-place of thy name by casting it to the ground.
They have burned Your sanctuary to the ground; they have defiled the dwelling place of Your Name.
They have sent into fire Thy sanctuary, to the earth they polluted the tabernacle of Thy name,
They have set on fire thy sanctuary, they have profaned the habitation of thy name to the ground.
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.