Again, they are minished and brought low through oppression, affliction, and sorrow.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAgain, they are diminished and bowed down Through oppression, trouble, and sorrow.
When they are decreased and humbled by oppression, evil, and sorrow,
And they are diminished, and bow down, By restraint, evil, and sorrow.
And they are diminished and brought low, through oppression, adversity, and sorrow:
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.