Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Lo, children are a heritage of Jehovah; Andthe fruit of the womb ishisreward.
WEB
Children are indeed a heritage from the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is His reward.
YLT
Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah are sons, A reward is the fruit of the womb.
DBT
Lo, children are an inheritance from Jehovah, [and] the fruit of the womb a reward.
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.