Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
And turned their rivers into blood, And their streams, so that they could not drink.
WEB
He turned their rivers to blood, and from their streams they could not drink.
YLT
And He turneth to blood their streams, And their floods they drink not.
DBT
And turned their rivers into blood, and their streams, that they could not drink;
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.