Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
If it had not been Jehovah who was on our side, When men rose up against us;
WEB
if the LORD had not been on our side when men attacked us,
YLT
Save for Jehovah--who hath been for us, In the rising up of man against us,
DBT
If it had not been Jehovah who was for us, when men rose up against us,
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.