That the generation to come might know them, even the children which should be born; who should arise and declare them to their children:
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4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsThat the generation to come might knowthem, even the children that should be born; Who should arise and tellthemto their children,
that the coming generation would know them— even children yet to be born— to arise and tell their own children
So that a later generation doth know, Sons who are born, do rise and recount to their sons,
That the generation to come might know [them], the children that should be born; that they might rise up and tell [them] to their children,
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.