They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
(The mountains rose, the valleys sank down) Unto the place which thou hadst founded for them.
WEB
the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place You assigned for them—
YLT
They go up hills--they go down valleys, Unto a place Thou hast founded for them.
DBT
The mountains rose, the valleys sank, unto the place which thou hadst founded for 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.