O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsOh turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; Give thy strength unto thy servant, And save the son of thy handmaid.
Turn to me and have mercy; grant Your strength to Your servant; save the son of Your maidservant.
Look unto me, and favour me, Give Thy strength to Thy servant, And give salvation to a son of Thine handmaid.
Turn toward me, and be gracious unto me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.
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.