I will early destroy all the wicked of the land; that I may cut off all wicked doers from the city of the Lord.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMorning by morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land; To cut off all the workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
Every morning I will remove all the wicked of the land, that I may cut off every evildoer from the city of the LORD.
At morning I cut off all the wicked of the land, To cut off from the city of Jehovah All the workers of iniquity!
Every morning will I destroy all the wicked of the land: to cut off all workers of iniquity from the city of Jehovah.
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.