The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
The cords of death compassed me, And the pains of Sheol gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.
Compassed me have cords of death, And straits of Sheol have found me, Distress and sorrow I find.
The bands of death encompassed me, and the anguish of Sheol took hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow:
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.