Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet the heavens be glad, and let the earth rejoice; Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice; let the sea resound, and all that fills it.
The heavens joy, and the earth is joyful, The sea and its fulness roar.
Let the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad; let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof;
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.