Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet thy priests be clothed with righteousness; And let thy saints shout for joy.
May Your priests be clothed with righteousness, and Your saints shout for joy.
Thy priests do put on righteousness, And Thy pious ones cry aloud.
Let thy priests be clothed with righteousness, and let thy saints shout for joy.
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.