Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe upright shall see it, and be glad; And all iniquity shall stop her mouth.
The upright see and rejoice, and all iniquity shuts its mouth.
The upright do see and rejoice, And all perversity hath shut her mouth.
The upright shall see it, and rejoice; and all unrighteousness shall stop its mouth.
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.