More to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold: sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMore to be desired are they than gold, yea, than much fine gold; Sweeter also than honey and the droppings of the honeycomb.
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.
They are more desirable than gold, Yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey, Even liquid honey of the comb.
They are more precious than gold, yea, than much fine gold; and sweeter than honey and the dropping of the honeycomb.
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.