Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThat they might keep his statutes, And observe his laws. Praise ye Jehovah.
that they might keep His statutes and obey His laws. Hallelujah!
That they may observe His statutes, And His laws may keep. Praise ye Jehovah!
That they might keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Hallelujah!
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.