Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
In Jehovah do I take refuge: How say ye to my soul, Fleeasa bird to your mountain;
WEB
In the LORD I take refuge. How then can you say to me: “Flee like a bird to your mountain!
YLT
To the Overseer. --By David. In Jehovah I trusted, how say ye to my soul, `They moved to Thy mountain for the bird?
DBT
In Jehovah have I put my trust: how say ye to my soul, Flee [as] a bird to your mountain?
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.