O remember not against us former iniquities: let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us: for we are brought very low.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsRemember not against us the iniquities of our forefathers: Let thy tender mercies speedily meet us; For we are brought very low.
Do not hold past sins against us; let Your compassion come quickly, for we are brought low.
Remember not for us the iniquities of forefathers, Haste, let Thy mercies go before us, For we have been very weak.
Remember not against us the iniquities of [our] forefathers; let thy tender mercies speedily come to meet us: for we are brought very low.
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.