Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsWe took sweet counsel together; We walked in the house of God with the throng.
We shared sweet fellowship together; we walked with the crowd into the house of God.
When together we sweeten counsel, Into the house of God we walk in company.
We who held sweet intercourse together. To the house ofGod we walked amid the throng.
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.