Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
He will come down like rain upon the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
WEB
May he be like rain that falls on freshly cut grass, like spring showers that water the earth.
YLT
He cometh down as rain on mown grass, As showers--sprinkling the earth.
DBT
He shall come down like rain on the mown grass, as showers that water the earth.
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.