Make us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, and the years wherein we have seen evil.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMake us glad according to the days wherein thou hast afflicted us, And the years wherein we have seen evil.
Make us glad for as many days as You have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen evil.
Cause us to rejoice according to the days Wherein Thou hast afflicted us, The years we have seen evil.
Make us glad according to the days [wherein] thou hast afflicted us, according to the years [wherein] we have seen evil.
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.