And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he gave them the lands of the nations; And they took the labor of the peoples in possession:
He gave them the lands of the nations, that they might inherit the fruit of others’ labor,
And He giveth to them the lands of nations, And the labour of peoples they possess,
And he gave them the lands of the nations, and they took possession of the labour of the peoples:
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.