Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBlessed be Jehovah, Because he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Blessed be the LORD, for He has heard my cry for mercy.
Blessed be Jehovah, for he hath heard the voice of my supplications.
Blessed is Jehovah, For He hath heard the voice of my supplications.
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.