Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTherefore he sware unto them, That he would overthrow them in the wilderness,
So He raised His hand and swore to cast them down in the wilderness,
And He lifteth up His hand to them, To cause them to fall in a wilderness,
And he lifted up his hand to them, that he would make them fall in the wilderness;
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.