Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
How sweet are thy words unto my taste! Yea, sweeter than honey to my mouth!
WEB
How sweet are Your words to my taste— sweeter than honey in my mouth!
YLT
How sweet to my palate hath been Thy saying, Above honey to my mouth.
DBT
How sweet are thy *words unto my taste! more than honey to my mouth!
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.