O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
O my soul, thou hast said unto Jehovah, Thou art my Lord: I have no good beyond thee.
WEB
I said to the LORD, “You are my Lord; apart from You I have no good thing.”
YLT
Thou hast said to Jehovah, `My Lord Thou art ;' My good is not for thine own sake;
DBT
Thou [my soul] hast said to Jehovah, Thou art the Lord: my goodness [extendeth] not to thee; —
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.