Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a vesture; The waters stood above the mountains.
WEB
You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains.
YLT
The abyss! as with clothing Thou hast covered it, Above hills do waters stand.
DBT
Thou hadst covered it with the deep, as with a vesture; the waters stood above the mountains:
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.