Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
When my father and my mother forsake me, Then Jehovah will take me up.
WEB
Though my father and mother forsake me, the LORD will receive me.
YLT
When my father and my mother Have forsaken me, then doth Jehovah gather me.
DBT
For had my father and my mother forsaken me, then had Jehovah taken me up.
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.