For the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up; and the reproaches of them that reproached thee are fallen upon me.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor the zeal of thy house hath eaten me up; And the reproaches of them that reproach thee are fallen upon me.
because zeal for Your house has consumed me, and the insults of those who insult You have fallen on me.
For zeal for Thy house hath consumed me, And the reproaches of Thy reproachers Have fallen upon me.
For the zeal of thy house hath devoured me, and the reproaches of them that reproach thee have fallen upon me.
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.