Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsSing praises unto Jehovah with the harp; With the harp and the voice of melody.
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
Sing to Jehovah with harp, With harp, and voice of praise,
Sing psalms unto Jehovah with the harp: with the harp, and the voice of a song;
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.