Who whet their tongue like a sword, and bend their bows to shoot their arrows, even bitter words:
KJV
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4 additional translationsASV
Who have whet their tongue like a sword, And have aimed their arrows, even bitter words,
WEB
who sharpen their tongues like swords and aim their bitter words like arrows,
YLT
Who sharpened as a sword their tongue, They directed their arrow--a bitter word.
DBT
Who have sharpened their tongue like a sword, [and] have aimed their arrow, a bitter word;
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.