My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMy flesh and my heart faileth; ButGod is the strength of my heart and my portion for ever.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Consumed hath been my flesh and my heart, The rock of my heart and my portion is God to the age.
My flesh and my heart faileth:God is the rock of my heart and my portion for ever.
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.