Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
The law of thy mouth is better unto me Than thousands of gold and silver. י YODH.
WEB
The law from Your mouth is more precious to me than thousands of pieces of gold and silver.
YLT
Better to me is the law of Thy mouth Than thousands of gold and silver!
DBT
The law of thy mouth is better unto me than thousands of gold and silver.
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.