Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But Jehovah hath been my high tower, And my God the rock of my refuge.
WEB
But the LORD has been my stronghold, and my God is my rock of refuge.
YLT
And Jehovah is for a high place to me, And my God is for a rock--my refuge,
DBT
But Jehovah will be my high tower; and myGod the rock of my refuge.
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.