Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsPraise ye Jehovah; For it is good to sing praises unto our God; For it is pleasant, andpraise is comely.
Hallelujah! How good it is to sing praises to our God, how pleasant and lovely to praise Him!
Praise ye Jah! For it is good to praise our God, For pleasant--comely is praise.
Praise ye Jah! for it is good. Sing psalms of ourGod; for it is pleasant: praise is comely.
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.