Many are the afflictions of the righteous: but the Lord delivereth him out of them all.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMany are the afflictions of the righteous; But Jehovah delivereth him out of them all.
Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the LORD delivers him from them all.
Many are the evils of the righteous, Out of them all doth Jehovah deliver him.
Many are the adversities of the righteous, but Jehovah delivereth him out of them all:
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.