Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek their bread out of their desolate places.
May his children wander as beggars, seeking sustenance far from their ruined homes.
And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.
Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek [their bread] far from their desolate places;
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.