Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.
WEB
He set the earth on its foundations, never to be moved.
YLT
He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
DBT
He laid the earth upon its foundations: it shall not be removed for ever.
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.