Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsASV
But chose the tribe of Judah, The mount Zion which he loved.
WEB
But He chose the tribe of Judah, Mount Zion, which He loved.
YLT
And He chooseth the tribe of Judah, With mount Zion that He loved,
DBT
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved;
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.