MANNAFEST

He clave the rocks in the wilderness, and gave them drink as out of the great depths.

KJV

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ASV

He clave rocks in the wilderness, And gave them drink abundantly as out of the depths.

WEB

He split the rocks in the wilderness and gave them drink as abundant as the seas.

YLT

He cleaveth rocks in a wilderness, And giveth drink--as the great deep.

DBT

He clave rocks in the wilderness, and gave [them] drink as out of the depths, abundantly;

About this book

Old Testament

PsalmsThe 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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