If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.
WEB
If I had said, “I will speak this way,” then I would have betrayed Your children.
YLT
If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.
DBT
If I said, I will speak thus, behold, I should be faithless to the generation of thy children.
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.