MANNAFEST

Let them be before the Lord continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth.

KJV

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ASV

Let them be before Jehovah continually, That he may cut off the memory of them from the earth;

WEB

May their sins always remain before the LORD, that He may cut off their memory from the earth.

YLT

They are before Jehovah continually, And He cutteth off from earth their memorial.

DBT

Let them be before Jehovah continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth:

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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.

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