MANNAFEST

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and tempted God in the desert.

KJV

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ASV

But lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, And tempted God in the desert.

WEB

They craved intensely in the wilderness and tested God in the desert.

YLT

And they lust greatly in a wilderness, And try God in a desert.

DBT

And they lusted exceedingly in the wilderness, and temptedGod in the desert.

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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.

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