Come and see the works of God: he is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
Come, and see the works of God; He is terrible in his doing toward the children of men.
WEB
Come and see the works of God; how awesome are His deeds toward mankind.
YLT
Come ye, and see the works of God, Fearful acts toward the sons of men.
DBT
Come and see the works ofGod: he is terrible in [his] doings toward the children of men.
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.