Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled: thou takest away their breath, they die, and return to their dust.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou hidest thy face, they are troubled; Thou takest away their breath, they die, And return to their dust.
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
Thou hidest Thy face--they are troubled, Thou gatherest their spirit--they expire, And unto their dust they turn back.
Thou hidest thy face, they are troubled; thou takest away their breath, they expire and return to their dust.
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.