Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTheir blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; And there was none to bury them.
They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead.
They have shed their blood As water round about Jerusalem, And there is none burying.
Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury [them].
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.