What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleest? Thou Jordan, that thou turnest back?
WEB
Why was it, O sea, that you fled, O Jordan, that you turned back,
YLT
What--to thee, O sea, that thou fleest? O Jordan, thou turnest back!
DBT
What ailed thee, thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou turnedst back?
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.