Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe wicked shall be turned back unto Sheol, Even all the nations that forget God.
The wicked will return to Sheol— all the nations who forget God.
The wicked do turn back to Sheol, All nations forgetting God.
The wicked shall be turned into Sheol, all the nations that forgetGod.
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.