Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They came round about me like water all the day long; They compassed me about together.
WEB
All day long they engulf me like water; they enclose me on every side.
YLT
They have surrounded me as waters all the day, They have gone round against me together,
DBT
They have surrounded me all the day like water; they have compassed me about together.
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.