He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsHe clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.
He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.
He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink--as the great deep.
He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;
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.