My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMy heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.
My heart pounds, my strength fails, and even the light of my eyes has faded.
My heart is panting, my power hath forsaken me, And the light of mine eyes, Even they are not with me.
My heart throbbeth, my strength hath left me; and the light of mine eyes, it also is no more with me.
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.