Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Let them praise the name of Jehovah; For he commanded, and they were created.
WEB
Let them praise the name of the LORD, for He gave the command and they were created.
YLT
They do praise the name of Jehovah, For He commanded, and they were created.
DBT
Let them praise the name of Jehovah, for he it is that commanded, and they were created:
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.