Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
They that sit in the gate talk of me; AndI amthe song of the drunkards.
WEB
Those who sit at the gate mock me, and I am the song of drunkards.
YLT
Those sitting at the gate meditate concerning me, And those drinking strong drink, Play on instruments.
DBT
They that sit in the gate talk of me, and [I am] the song of the drunkards.
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.