For I said, Hear me, lest otherwise they should rejoice over me: when my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor I said, Let them not rejoice over me! When my foot slipped, they magnified [themselves] against me.
For I said, Lest they rejoice over me: When my foot slippeth, they magnify themselves against me.
For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
When I said, `Lest they rejoice over me, In the slipping of my foot against me they magnified themselves.
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.