Attend unto my cry; for I am brought very low: deliver me from my persecutors; for they are stronger than I.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAttend unto my cry; For I am brought very low: Deliver me from my persecutors; For they are stronger than I.
Listen to my cry, for I am brought quite low. Rescue me from my pursuers, for they are too strong for me.
Attend Thou unto my loud cry, For I have become very low, Deliver Thou me from my pursuers, For they have been stronger than I.
Attend unto my cry, for I am brought very low; deliver me from my persecutors, for they are stronger than I.
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.