How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHow long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
To the Overseer. --A Psalm of David. Till when, O Jehovah, Dost Thou forget me? --for ever? Till when dost Thou hide Thy face from me?
How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
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.