Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFor thy servant David’s sake Turn not away the face of thine anointed.
For the sake of Your servant David, do not reject Your anointed one.
For the sake of David Thy servant, Turn not back the face of Thine anointed.
For thy servant David's sake, turn not away the face of thine anointed.
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.