The God of my mercy shall prevent me: God shall let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMy God with his lovingkindness will meet me: God will let me see my desire upon mine enemies.
My God of loving devotion will come to meet me; God will let me stare down my foes.
God doth go before me, He causeth me to look on mine enemies.
God, whose loving-kindness will come to meet me, —God shall let me see [my desire] upon mine enemies.
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.