Lift up your heads, O ye gates; even lift them up, ye everlasting doors; and the King of glory shall come in.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLift up your heads, O ye gates; Yea, lift them up, ye everlasting doors: And the King of glory will come in.
Lift up your heads, O gates! Be lifted up, O ancient doors, that the King of Glory may enter!
Lift up, O gates, your heads, And be lifted up, O doors age-during, And come in doth the king of glory!
Lift up your heads, ye gates; yea, lift up, ye everlasting doors, and the King of glory shall come in.
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.