Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWe have sinned with our fathers, We have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
We have sinned like our fathers; we have done wrong and acted wickedly.
We have sinned with our fathers, We have done perversely, we have done wickedly.
We have sinned with our fathers, we have committed iniquity, we have done wickedly.
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.