Slay them not, lest my people forget: scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsSlay them not, lest my people forget: Scatter them by thy power, and bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Do not kill them, or my people will forget. Scatter them by Your power, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
Slay them not, lest my people forget, Shake them by Thy strength, And bring them down, O Lord our shield.
Slay them not, lest my people forget; by thy power make them wander, and bring them down, O Lord, our shield.
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.