Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Fire devoured their young men; And their virgins had no marriage-song.
WEB
Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.
YLT
His young men hath fire consumed, And His virgins have not been praised.
DBT
The fire consumed their young men, and their maidens were not praised in [nuptial] song;
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.