Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsDeliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink: Let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the deep waters.
Rescue me from the mire and do not let me sink; deliver me from my foes and out of the deep waters.
Deliver me from the mire, and let me not sink, Let me be delivered from those hating me, And from deep places of waters.
Deliver me out of the mire, let me not sink; let me be delivered from them that hate me, and out of the depths of waters.
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.