MANNAFEST

The Lord on high is mightier than the noise of many waters, yea, than the mighty waves of the sea.

KJV

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ASV

Above the voices of many waters, The mighty breakers of the sea, Jehovah on high is mighty.

WEB

Above the roar of many waters— the mighty breakers of the sea— the LORD on high is majestic.

YLT

Than the voices of many mighty waters, Breakers of a sea, mighty on high is Jehovah,

DBT

Jehovah on high is mightier than the voices of many waters, than the mighty breakers of the sea.

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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.

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