Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor Jehovah heareth the needy, And despiseth not his prisoners.
For the LORD listens to the needy and does not despise His captive people.
For Jehovah hearkeneth unto the needy, And His bound ones He hath not despised.
For Jehovah heareth the needy, and despiseth not his prisoners.
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.