Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe nations raged, the kingdoms were moved: He uttered his voice, the earth melted.
Nations rage, kingdoms crumble; the earth melts when He lifts His voice.
Troubled have been nations, Moved have been kingdoms, He hath given forth with His voice, earth melteth.
The nations raged, the kingdoms were moved; he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
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.