Behold, bless ye the Lord, all ye servants of the Lord, which by night stand in the house of the Lord.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBehold, bless ye Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, That by night stand in the house of Jehovah.
Come, bless the LORD, all you servants of the LORD who serve by night in the house of the LORD!
A Song of the Ascents. Lo, bless Jehovah, all servants of Jehovah, Who are standing in the house of Jehovah by night.
Behold, bless Jehovah, all ye servants of Jehovah, who by night stand in the house of Jehovah.
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.