Praise the Lord; for the Lord is good: sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Praise ye Jehovah; for Jehovah is good: Sing praises unto his name; for it is pleasant.
WEB
Hallelujah, for the LORD is good; sing praises to His name, for it is lovely.
YLT
Praise ye Jah! for Jehovah is good, Sing praise to His name, for it is pleasant.
DBT
Praise ye Jah; for Jehovah is good: sing psalms unto his name; for it is pleasant.
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.