Books of the Bible / Psalms
Random Verse from Psalms
Roll a random verse from Psalms -- 150 chapters, 2,461 verses -- with the same crypto-secure, unbiased draw as the main generator, scoped to just this book.
“You drove out the nations with your hand, but you planted them. You afflicted the peoples, but you spread them abroad.”
Psalms 44:2
World English Bible (WEB) — public domain
About Psalms (summary)
Psalms is book 19 of 66 in the Protestant canon, part of the Old Testament. It runs 150 chapters and 2,461 verses in the World English Bible (WEB) — public domain -- both counts computed directly from this site's own copy of that data, the same pool this roller draws from, not entered by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is Psalms compared to other books of the Bible?
Psalms is the longest of the 66 books by verse count, with 2,461 verses across 150 chapters -- an average of 16.4 verses per chapter.
What translation is the text drawn from?
The World English Bible (WEB) — public domain, a public-domain English translation, so every verse can be quoted here in full without a license. The reference and wording are looked up from this site's own copy of that same text, not paraphrased.
Where does Psalms sit among the other Old Testament books?
Psalms is book 19 of 39 in the Old Testament, and book 19 of 66 overall in the Protestant canon.
What books come right before and after Psalms?
Job comes directly before it (42 chapters). Proverbs comes directly after it (31 chapters).
How is the random verse actually chosen?
With the Web Crypto API's cryptographically-secure random number generator, picking uniformly among all 2,461 verses in Psalms -- not a pseudo-random Math.random() draw, and not weighted toward well-known verses, so an obscure genealogy verse has exactly the same chance of coming up as a famous one.