MANNAFEST

Their priests fell by the sword; and their widows made no lamentation.

KJV

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ASV

Their priests fell by the sword; And their widows made no lamentation.

WEB

His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.

YLT

His priests by the sword have fallen, And their widows weep not.

DBT

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows made no lamentation.

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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