Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTeach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.
Teach me to do Your will, for You are my God. May Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
Teach me to do Thy good pleasure, For Thou art my God--Thy Spirit is good, Lead me into a land of uprightness.
Teach me to do thy will; for thou art myGod: let thy good Spirit lead me in a plain country.
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.