Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Why standest thou afar off, O Jehovah? Why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?
WEB
Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?
YLT
Why, Jehovah, dost Thou stand at a distance? Thou dost hide in times of adversity,
DBT
Why, Jehovah, standest thou afar off? [Why] hidest thou thyself in times of distress?
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.