Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
It is better to take refuge in Jehovah Than to put confidence in princes.
WEB
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.
YLT
Better to take refuge in Jehovah, Than to trust in princes.
DBT
It is better to trust in Jehovah than to put confidence in nobles.
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.