I cried unto thee, O Lord: I said, Thou art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI cried unto thee, O Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.
I cry to You, O LORD: “You are my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.”
I have cried unto thee, O Jehovah, I have said, `Thou art my refuge, My portion in the land of the living.'
I cried unto thee, Jehovah; I said, Thou art my refuge, my portion in the land of the living.
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.