Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
KJV
Parallel translations
4 additional translations▾
Parallel translations
4 additional translationsMake a joyful noise unto Jehovah, all the earth: Break forth and sing for joy, yea, sing praises.
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
Shout to Jehovah, all the earth, Break forth, and cry aloud, and sing.
Shout aloud unto Jehovah, all the earth; break forth and shout for joy, and sing psalms.
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.