Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsOf old didst thou lay the foundation of the earth; And the heavens are the work of thy hands.
In the beginning You laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of Your hands.
Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands are the heavens.
Of old hast thou founded the earth, and the heavens are the work of thy hands:
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.