Thou preparedst room before it, and didst cause it to take deep root, and it filled the land.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou preparedst room before it, And it took deep root, and filled the land.
You cleared the ground for it, and it took root and filled the land.
Thou hast looked before it, and dost root it, And it filleth the land,
Thou preparedst space before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land;
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.