I behaved myself as though he had been my friend or brother: I bowed down heavily, as one that mourneth for his mother.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI behaved myself as though it had been my friend or my brother: I bowed down mourning, as one that bewaileth his mother.
I paced about as for my friend or brother; I was bowed down with grief, like one mourning for his mother.
As if a friend, as if my brother, I walked habitually, As a mourner for a mother, Mourning I have bowed down.
I behaved myself as though [he had been] a friend, a brother to me; I bowed down in sadness, as one that mourneth [for] a mother.
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.