Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He will have pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he will save.
DBT
He will have compassion on the poor and needy, and will save the souls of the needy:
WEB
He will take pity on the poor and needy and save the lives of the oppressed.
YLT
He hath pity on the poor and needy, And the souls of the needy he saveth,
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.