For strangers are risen up against me, and oppressors seek after my soul: they have not set God before them. Selah.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor strangers are risen up against me, And violent men have sought after my soul: They have not set God before them. [Selah
For strangers rise up against me, and ruthless men seek my life— men with no regard for God. Selah
For strangers have risen up against me And terrible ones have sought my soul, They have not set God before them. Selah.
For strangers are risen up against me, and the violent seek after my life: they have not setGod before them. Selah.
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.