Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWill the Lord cast off for ever? And will he be favorable no more?
“Will the Lord spurn us forever and never show His favor again?
To the ages doth the Lord cast off? Doth He add to be pleased no more?
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
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.