Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways:
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4 additional translationsForty years long was I grieved with that generation, And said, It is a people that do err in their heart, And they have not known my ways:
For forty years I was angry with that generation, and I said, “They are a people whose hearts go astray, and they have not known My ways.”
Forty years I am weary of the generation, And I say, `A people erring in heart--they! And they have not known My ways:'
Forty years was I grieved with the generation, and said, It is a people that do err in their heart, and they have not known my ways;
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.