Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsYet they tempted and rebelled against the Most High God, And kept not his testimonies;
But they tested and disobeyed God Most High, for they did not keep His decrees.
And they tempt and provoke God Most High, And His testimonies have not kept.
But they tempted and provokedGod, the Most High, and kept not his testimonies,
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.