My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spake I with my tongue,
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDBT
My heart burned within me; the fire was kindled in my musing: I spoke with my tongue,
ASV
My heart was hot within me; While I was musing the fire burned; Then spake I with my tongue:
WEB
My heart grew hot within me; as I mused, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
YLT
Hot is my heart within me, In my meditating doth the fire burn, I have spoken with my tongue.
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.