Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsSurely thou wilt slay the wicked, O God: Depart from me therefore, ye bloodthirsty men.
O God, that You would slay the wicked— away from me, you bloodthirsty men—
Dost Thou slay, O God, the wicked? Then, men of blood, turn aside from me!
Oh that thou wouldest slay the wicked, OGod! And ye men of blood, depart from me.
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.