The mighty God, even the Lord, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThe Mighty One, God, Jehovah, hath spoken, And called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
The Mighty One, God the LORD, speaks and summons the earth from where the sun rises to where it sets.
A Psalm of Asaph. The God of gods--Jehovah--hath spoken, And He calleth to the earth From the rising of the sun unto its going in.
God, Elohim-Jehovah, hath spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun unto the going down thereof.
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.