Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet the sighing of the prisoner come before thee: According to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to death;
May the groans of the captives reach You; by the strength of Your arm preserve those condemned to death.
Let the groaning of the prisoner come in before Thee, According to the greatness of Thine arm, Leave Thou the sons of death.
Let the groaning of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm, preserve those that are appointed to die;
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.