Nevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, that he might make his mighty power to be known.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsNevertheless he saved them for his name’s sake, That he might make his mighty power to be known.
Yet He saved them for the sake of His name, to make His power known.
And He saveth them for His name's sake, To make known His might,
Yet he saved them for his name's sake, that he might make known his might.
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.