Let them curse, but bless thou: when they arise, let them be ashamed; but let thy servant rejoice.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet them curse, but bless thou: When they arise, they shall be put to shame, But thy servant shall rejoice.
Though they curse, You will bless. When they rise up, they will be put to shame, but Your servant will rejoice.
They revile, and Thou dost bless, They have risen, and are ashamed, And Thy servant doth rejoice.
Let them curse, but bless thou; when they rise up, let them be ashamed, and let thy servant rejoice.
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.