Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWhy drawest thou back thy hand, even thy right hand? Pluck itout of thy bosom and consume them.
Why do You withdraw Your strong right hand? Stretch it out to destroy them!
Why dost Thou turn back Thy hand, Even Thy right hand? From the midst of Thy bosom remove it .
Why withdrawest thou thy hand, and thy right hand? [pluck it] out of thy bosom: consume [them].
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.