For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor such as are blessed of him shall inherit the land; And they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
Surely those He blesses will inherit the land, but the cursed will be destroyed.
For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.
for those blessed of him shall possess the land, and they that are cursed of him shall be cut off.
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.