They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey mount up to the heavens, they go down again to the depths: Their soul melteth away because of trouble.
They mounted up to the heavens, then sunk to the depths; their courage melted in their anguish.
They go up to the heavens, they go down to the depths, Their soul in evil is melted.
They mount up to the heavens, they go down to the depths; their soul is melted because of trouble;
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.