MANNAFEST

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

KJV

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ASV

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; From heaven did Jehovah behold the earth;

WEB

For He looked down from the heights of His sanctuary; the LORD gazed out from heaven to earth

YLT

For He hath looked From the high place of His sanctuary. Jehovah from heaven unto earth looked attentively,

DBT

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from the heavens hath Jehovah beheld the earth,

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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.

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