MANNAFEST

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.

KJV

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ASV

Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.

WEB

So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.

YLT

And He consumeth in vanity their days, And their years in trouble.

DBT

And he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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.

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