Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
O my God, make them like the whirling dust; As stubble before the wind.
WEB
Make them like tumbleweed, O my God, like chaff before the wind.
YLT
O my God, make them as a rolling thing, As stubble before wind.
DBT
O myGod, make them like a whirling thing, like stubble before the wind.
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.