Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Trouble and anguish have taken hold on me; Yet thy commandments are my delight.
WEB
Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
YLT
Adversity and distress have found me, Thy commands are my delights.
DBT
Trouble and anguish have taken hold upon me: thy commandments are my delights.
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.