Princes have persecuted me without a cause: but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Princes have persecuted me without a cause; But my heart standeth in awe of thy words.
WEB
Rulers persecute me without cause, but my heart fears only Your word.
YLT
Shin. Princes have pursued me without cause, And because of Thy words was my heart afraid.
DBT
SHIN. Princes have persecuted me without a cause; but my heart standeth in awe of thy word.
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.