Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed That feareth Jehovah.
WEB
In this way indeed shall blessing come to the man who fears the LORD.
YLT
Lo, surely thus is the man blessed who is fearing Jehovah.
DBT
Behold, thus shall the man be blessed that feareth Jehovah.
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.