Thou feedest them with the bread of tears; and givest them tears to drink in great measure.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou hast fed them with the bread of tears, And given them tears to drink in large measure.
You fed them with the bread of tears and made them drink the full measure of their tears.
Thou hast caused them to eat bread of tears, And causest them to drink With tears a third time.
Thou hast fed them with the bread of tears, and given them tears to drink in large measure:
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.