They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, And condemn the innocent blood.
WEB
They band together against the righteous and condemn the innocent to death.
YLT
They decree against the soul of the righteous, And innocent blood declare wicked.
DBT
They band together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn innocent blood.
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.