They said in their hearts, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey said in their heart, Let us make havoc of them altogether: They have burned up all the synagogues of God in the land.
They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.
They said in their hearts, `Let us oppress them together,' They did burn all the meeting-places of God in the land.
They said in their heart, Let us destroy them together: they have burned up allGod's places of assembly in the land.
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.