The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedars; yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon.
KJV
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe voice of Jehovah breaketh cedars; yea, Jehovah breaketh the cedars of Lebanon:
The voice of Jehovah breaketh the cedars; Yea, Jehovah breaketh in pieces the cedars of Lebanon.
The voice of the LORD breaks the cedars; the LORD shatters the cedars of Lebanon.
The voice of Jehovah is shivering cedars, Yea, Jehovah shivers the cedars of Lebanon.
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.