When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
When thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Jehovah, will I seek.
WEB
My heart said, “Seek His face.” Your face, O LORD, I will seek.
YLT
To Thee said my heart `They sought my face, Thy face, O Jehovah, I seek.'
DBT
My heart said for thee, Seek ye my face. Thy face, O Jehovah, will I seek.
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.