Psalms 136:21 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 136:21

And gave their land for an heritage: for his mercy endureth for ever:

KJV

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ASV

And gave their land for a heritage; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever;

WEB

and He gave their land as an inheritance, His loving devotion endures forever.

YLT

And He gave their land for inheritance, For to the age is His kindness.

DBT

And gave their land for an inheritance, for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever,

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Psalms — 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.

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Psalms 105:44
And gave them the lands of the heathen: and they inherited the labour of the people;
Psalms 135:12
And gave their land for an heritage, an heritage unto Israel his people.
Isaiah 58:14
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.
Psalms 44:2–3
How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
Joshua 13:1–21
Now Joshua was old and stricken in years; and the Lord said unto him, Thou art old and stricken in years, and there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

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As he said to the Egyptians, Let my people go, so to the Canaanites, Let my people in, that they may serve me. In this God's mercy to them endureth for ever, because it was a figure of the heavenly Canaan, the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eternal life.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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