He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and brake their bands in sunder.
KJV
Parallel translations
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4 additional translationsASV
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, And brake their bonds in sunder.
WEB
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death and broke away their chains.
YLT
He bringeth them out from the dark place, And death-shade, And their bands He draweth away.
DBT
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and broke their bands in sunder.
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.