MANNAFEST

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.

KJV

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ASV

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, And have pity upon her dust.

WEB

For Your servants delight in her stones and take pity on her dust.

YLT

For Thy servants have been pleased with her stones, And her dust they favour.

DBT

For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour her dust.

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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