Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsFrom the place of his habitation he looketh forth Upon all the inhabitants of the earth,
From His dwelling place He gazes on all who inhabit the earth.
From the fixed place of His dwelling, He looked unto all inhabitants of the earth;
From the place of his habitation he looketh forth upon all the inhabitants of the earth;
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.