Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBlessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah, The people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.
Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen as His inheritance!
O the happiness of the nation whose God is Jehovah, Of the people He did choose, For an inheritance to Him.
Blessed is the nation whoseGod is Jehovah, the people that he hath chosen for his inheritance!
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.