If I say, Surely the darkness shall cover me; even the night shall be light about me.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If I say, Surely the darkness shall overwhelm me, And the light about me shall be night;
WEB
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me, and the light become night around me”—
YLT
And I say, `Surely darkness bruiseth me, Then night is light to me.
DBT
And if I say, Surely darkness shall cover me, and the light about me be night;
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.