Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsTherefore his people return hither: And waters of a fullcupare drained by them.
So their people return to this place and drink up waters in abundance.
Therefore do His people return hither, And waters of fulness are wrung out to them.
Therefore his people turn hither, and waters in fulness are wrung out to them.
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.