Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet burning coals fall upon them: Let them be cast into the fire, Into deep pits, whence they shall not rise.
May burning coals fall on them; may they be thrown into the fire, into the miry pits, never to rise again.
They cause to fall on themselves burning coals, Into fire He doth cast them, Into deep pits--they arise not.
Let burning coals fall on them; let them be cast into the fire; into deep waters, that they rise not up again.
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.