Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsI will run the way of thy commandments, When thou shalt enlarge my heart. ה HE.
I run in the path of Your commandments, for You will enlarge my heart.
The way of Thy commands I run, For Thou dost enlarge my heart!
I will run the way of thy commandments when thou shalt enlarge my heart.
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.