But his delight is in the law of the Lord; and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But his delight is in the law of Jehovah; And on his law doth he meditate day and night.
WEB
But his delight is in the Law of the LORD, and on His law he meditates day and night.
YLT
But--in the law of Jehovah is his delight, And in His law he doth meditate by day and by night:
DBT
But his delight is in Jehovah's law, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.
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.