Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe raiseth up the poor out of the dust, And lifteth up the needy from the dunghill;
He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the dump
He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.
He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy,
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.