We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
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Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWe have heard with our ears, O God, Our fathers have told us, What work thou didst in their days, In the days of old.
We have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us the work You did in their days, in the days of old.
To the Overseer. --By sons of Korah. An Instruction. O God, with our ears we have heard, Our fathers have recounted to us, The work Thou didst work in their days, In the days of old.
OGod, with our ears have we heard, our fathers have told us, the work thou wroughtest in their days, in the days of old:
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.