Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
WEB
My heart murmurs within me, and the terrors of death assail me.
YLT
My heart is pained within me, And terrors of death have fallen on me.
DBT
My heart is writhing within me, and the terrors of death are fallen upon me.
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.