My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMy soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; My heart and my flesh cry out unto the living God.
My soul longs, even faints, for the courts of the LORD; my heart and my flesh cry out for the living God.
My soul desired, yea, it hath also been consumed, For the courts of Jehovah, My heart and my flesh cry aloud unto the living God,
My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of Jehovah; my heart and my flesh cry out for the livingGod.
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.