Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: in the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou carriest them away as with a flood; they are as a sleep: In the morning they are like grass which groweth up.
You whisk them away in their sleep; they are like the new grass of the morning—
Thou hast inundated them, they are asleep, In the morning as grass he changeth.
Thou carriest them away as with a flood; they are [as] a sleep: in the morning they are like grass [that] groweth up:
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.