Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHow long, O Jehovah? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? How longshall thy wrath burn like fire?
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
Till when, O Jehovah, art Thou hidden? For ever doth Thy fury burn as fire?
How long, Jehovah, wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy fury burn like fire?
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.