In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsIn the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; In the evening it is cut down, and withereth.
in the morning it springs up new, but by evening it fades and withers.
In the morning it flourisheth, and hath changed, At evening it is cut down, and hath withered.
In the morning it flourisheth and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down and withereth.
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.