Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWith an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp.
with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
On ten strings and on psaltery, On higgaion, with harp.
Upon an instrument of ten strings and upon the lute; upon the Higgaion with the harp.
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.