Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
For thou, Jehovah, art most high above all the earth: Thou art exalted far above all gods.
WEB
For You, O LORD, are Most High over all the earth; You are exalted far above all gods.
YLT
For Thou, Jehovah, art Most High over all the earth, Greatly Thou hast been exalted over all gods.
DBT
For thou, Jehovah, art the Most High above all the earth; thou art exalted exceedingly above allgods.
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.