As the mountains are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about his people from henceforth even for ever.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAs the mountains are round about Jerusalem, So Jehovah is round about his people From this time forth and for evermore.
As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
Jerusalem! mountains are round about her, And Jehovah is round about His people, From henceforth even unto the age.
Jerusalem! — mountains are round about her, and Jehovah is round about his people, from henceforth and for evermore.
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.