Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, And cleanse me from my sin.
Wash me clean of my iniquity and cleanse me from my sin.
Thoroughly wash me from mine iniquity, And from my sin cleanse me,
Wash me fully from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.
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.