Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThough he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down; For Jehovah upholdeth him with his hand.
Though he falls, he will not be overwhelmed, for the LORD is holding his hand.
When he falleth, he is not cast down, For Jehovah is sustaining his hand.
though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for Jehovah upholdeth his hand.
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.