{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa008_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa008_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa008_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/psa008.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Psalm 8, a Hebrew hymn attributed to David, displayed simultaneously in four versions: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text, and the Latin Vulgate. The psalm's central movement is a meditation on cosmic scale and human dignity: it opens and closes with praise of God's majestic name \"in all the earth,\" then contrasts the vastness of the heavens with the smallness of humanity, only to resolve that tension by affirming human beings are crowned with glory and given dominion over creation. The most theologically loaded verse \u2014 rendering the Hebrew *Elohim* as \"angels\" in the KJV and Vulgate but leaving it ambiguous in the Hebrew \u2014 is a notable crux that later became significant in New Testament Christological interpretation (Hebrews 2). The format's distinctive value is comparative: by presenting all four columns together with Strong's numbers anchoring the KJV to the original Hebrew, it invites close study of how translators handled key terms across traditions. This would primarily interest readers engaged in biblical studies, textual criticism, or translation history rather than devotional reading.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 8","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":543}