He made a way to his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe made a path for his anger; He spared not their soul from death, But gave their life over to the pestilence,
He cleared a path for His anger; He did not spare them from death but delivered their lives to the plague.
He pondereth a path for His anger, He kept not back their soul from death, Yea, their life to the pestilence He delivered up.
He made a way for his anger; he spared not their soul from death, but gave their life over to the pestilence;
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.