Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsStreams of water run down mine eyes, Because they observe not thy law. צ TSADHE.
My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
Rivulets of waters have come down mine eyes, Because they have not kept Thy law!
Mine eyes run down with streams of water, because they keep not thy law.
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.