Have respect unto the covenant: for the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of cruelty.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHave respect unto the covenant; For the dark places of the earth are full of the habitations of violence.
Consider Your covenant, for haunts of violence fill the dark places of the land.
Look attentively to the covenant, For the dark places of earth, Have been full of habitations of violence.
Have respect unto the covenant; for the dark places of the earth are full of the dwellings of violence.
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.