Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsStir up thyself, and awake to the justice due unto me, Even unto my cause, my God and my Lord.
Awake and rise to my defense, to my cause, my God and my Lord!
Stir up, and wake to my judgment, My God, and my Lord, to my plea.
Stir up thyself, and awake for my right, for my cause, myGod and Lord!
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.