Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThey are not in trouble asothermen; Neither are they plagued likeothermen.
They are free of the burdens others carry; they are not afflicted like other men.
In the misery of mortals they are not, And with common men they are not plagued.
They have not the hardships of mankind, neither are they plagued like [other] men:
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.