Let destruction come upon him at unawares; and let his net that he hath hid catch himself: into that very destruction let him fall.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet destruction come upon him unawares; And let his net that he hath hid catch himself: With destruction let him fall therein.
May ruin befall them by surprise; may the net they hid ensnare them; may they fall into the hazard they created.
Meet him doth desolation--he knoweth not, And his net that he hid catcheth him, For desolation he falleth into it.
Let destruction come upon him unawares, and let his net which he hath hidden catch himself: for destruction let him fall therein.
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.