The wrath of God came upon them, and slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWhen the anger of God went up against them, And slew of the fattest of them, And smote down the young men of Israel.
God’s anger flared against them, and He put to death their strongest and subdued the young men of Israel.
And the anger of God hath gone up against them, And He slayeth among their fat ones, And youths of Israel He caused to bend.
When the anger ofGod went up against them; and he slew the fattest of them, and smote down the chosen men of Israel.
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.