O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Oh come, let us sing unto Jehovah; Let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
WEB
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
YLT
Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.
DBT
Come, let us sing aloud to Jehovah, let us shout for joy to the rock of our salvation;
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.