Therefore shalt thou make them turn their back, when thou shalt make ready thine arrows upon thy strings against the face of them.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor thou wilt make them turn their back; Thou wilt make ready with thy bowstrings against their face.
For You will put them to flight when Your bow is trained upon them.
For Thou makest them a butt, When Thy strings Thou preparest against their faces.
For thou wilt make them turn their back; thou wilt make ready thy bowstring against their face.
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.