Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWEB
May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
ASV
Blessed are ye of Jehovah, Who made heaven and earth.
YLT
Blessed are ye of Jehovah, maker of heaven and earth,
DBT
Ye are blessed of Jehovah, who made the heavens and the earth.
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.