Let them be blotted out of the book of the living, and not be written with the righteous.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet them be blotted out of the book of life, And not be written with the righteous.
May they be blotted out of the Book of Life and not listed with the righteous.
They are blotted out of the book of life, And with the righteous are not written.
Let them be blotted out of the book of life, and not be written with the righteous.
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.