Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Deal bountifully with thy servant, that I may live; So will I observe thy word.
WEB
Deal bountifully with Your servant, that I may live and keep Your word.
YLT
Gimel. Confer benefits on Thy servant, I live, and I keep Thy word.
DBT
GIMEL. Deal bountifully with thy servant [and] I shall live; and I will keep thy word.
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.