By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsBy the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, And all the host of them by the breath of his mouth.
By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, and all the stars by the breath of His mouth.
By the word of Jehovah The heavens have been made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host.
By the word of Jehovah were the heavens made, and all the host of them by the breath of his 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.