Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For my brethren and companions’ sakes, I will now say, Peace be within thee.
WEB
For the sake of my brothers and friends, I will say, “Peace be within you.”
YLT
For the sake of my brethren and my companions, Let me speak, I pray thee, `Peace be in thee.'
DBT
For my brethren and companions' sakes I will say, Peace be within thee!
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.