For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked have inclosed me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.
For dogs surround me; a band of evil men encircles me; they have pierced my hands and feet.
And to the dust of death thou appointest me, For surrounded me have dogs, A company of evil doers have compassed me, Piercing my hands and my feet.
For dogs have encompassed me; an assembly of evil-doers have surrounded me: they pierced my hands and my feet.
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.