Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsAnd he increased his people greatly, And made them stronger than their adversaries.
And the LORD made His people very fruitful, more numerous than their foes,
And He maketh His people very fruitful, And maketh it mightier than its adversaries.
And he made his people exceeding fruitful, and made them mightier than their oppressors.
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.