Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The cords of death compassed me, And the floods of ungodliness made me afraid.
WEB
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
YLT
Compassed me have cords of death, And streams of the worthless make me afraid.
DBT
The bands of death encompassed me, and torrents of Belial made me afraid.
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.