Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsOh let not the oppressed return ashamed: Let the poor and needy praise thy name.
Do not let the oppressed retreat in shame; may the poor and needy praise Your name.
Let not the oppressed turn back ashamed, Let the poor and needy praise Thy name,
Oh let not the oppressed one return ashamed; let the afflicted and needy praise thy name.
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.