Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsSurely I have stilled and quieted my soul; Like a weaned child with his mother, Like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Surely I have stilled and quieted my soul; like a weaned child with his mother, like a weaned child is my soul within me.
Have I not compared, and kept silent my soul, As a weaned one by its mother? As a weaned one by me is my soul.
Surely I have restrained and composed my soul, like a weaned child with its mother: my soul within me is as a weaned child.
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.