Thou hast given him his heart’s desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThou hast given him his heart’s desire, And hast not withholden the request of his lips. [Selah
You have granted his heart’s desire and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
The desire of his heart Thou gavest to him, And the request of his lips Thou hast not withheld. Selah.
Thou hast given him his heart's desire, and hast not withholden the request of his lips. Selah.
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.