Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMy knees are weak through fasting; And my flesh faileth of fatness.
My knees are weak from fasting, and my body grows lean and gaunt.
My knees have been feeble from fasting, And my flesh hath failed of fatness.
My knees are failing through fasting, and my flesh hath lost its fatness;
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.