Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBecause thy lovingkindness is better than life, My lips shall praise thee.
Because Your loving devotion is better than life, my lips will glorify You.
Because better is Thy kindness than life, My lips do praise Thee.
For thy loving-kindness is better than life: my lips shall praise thee.
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.