The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe young lions do lack, and suffer hunger; But they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good thing.
Young lions go lacking and hungry, but those who seek the LORD lack no good thing.
Young lions have lacked and been hungry, And those seeking Jehovah lack not any good,
The young lions are in need and suffer hunger; but they that seek Jehovah shall not want any good.
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.