I have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; for I do not forget thy commandments.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI have gone astray like a lost sheep; seek thy servant; For I do not forget thy commandments.
I have strayed like a lost sheep; seek Your servant, for I have not forgotten Your commandments.
I wandered as a lost sheep, seek Thy servant, For Thy precepts I have not forgotten!
I have gone astray like a lost sheep: seek thy servant; for I have not forgotten thy commandments.
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.