Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet there be none to extend kindness unto him; Neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
May there be no one to extend kindness to him, and no one to favor his fatherless children.
He hath none to extend kindness, Nor is there one showing favour to his orphans.
Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children;
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.