Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.
WEB
Through my loud groaning my flesh clings to my bones.
YLT
From the voice of my sighing Hath my bone cleaved to my flesh.
DBT
By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bones cleave to my flesh.
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.