Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor the pestilence that walketh in darkness, Nor for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness, nor the calamity that destroys at noon.
Of pestilence in thick darkness that walketh, Of destruction that destroyeth at noon,
For the pestilence that walketh in darkness, for the destruction that wasteth at noonday.
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.