At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAt the brightness before him his thick clouds passed, Hailstones and coals of fire.
From the brightness of His presence His clouds advanced— hailstones and coals of fire.
From the brightness over-against Him His thick clouds have passed on, Hail and coals of fire.
From the brightness before him his thick clouds passed forth: hail and coals of fire.
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.