Hearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house;
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHearken, O daughter, and consider, and incline thine ear; Forget also thine own people, and thy father’s house:
Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house,
Hearken, O daughter, and see, incline thine ear, And forget thy people, and thy father's house,
Hearken, daughter, and see, and incline thine ear; and forget thine own people and thy father's house:
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.