Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBehold, how good and how pleasant it is For brethren to dwell together in unity!
Behold, how good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in harmony!
A Song of the Ascents, by David. Lo, how good and how pleasant The dwelling of brethren--even together!
Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
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.