Let all the earth fear the Lord: let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsLet all the earth fear Jehovah: Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
Let all the earth fear the LORD; let all the people of the world revere Him.
Afraid of Jehovah are all the earth, Of Him are all the inhabitants of the world afraid.
Let all the earth fear Jehovah; let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him.
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.