{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa037_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa037_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa037_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/psa037.htm","summary":"This is a comparative scripture document presenting two adjacent psalms across four distinct textual traditions displayed in parallel columns: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek, labeled \"Sep\"), the Masoretic Hebrew text (labeled \"Tan\" for Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 37, a Davidic wisdom psalm whose central argument is that the righteous should not envy evildoers, since the wicked will swiftly perish while the meek inherit the earth \u2014 a theme repeated across its 40 verses through contrasting portraits of the righteous (upheld, satisfied, remembered by God) and the wicked (cut off, consumed like smoke). The Greek and Latin columns present what Protestant numbering calls Psalm 38, a penitential lament in which the speaker cries out to God about physical suffering, the weight of personal sin, abandonment by friends, and enemies who repay good with evil \u2014 a tonally opposite psalm of anguish rather than reassurance. A notably distinctive feature of the KJV column is the embedding of Strong's Concordance reference numbers directly within the verse text, identifying the underlying Hebrew lexical roots, which marks this as a tool for word-level cross-linguistic study rather than devotional reading. The document thus serves scholars or serious Bible students interested in comparing how the same or adjacent psalms read across manuscript traditions, where canonical numbering diverges between the Hebrew/Protestant and Greek/Latin Catholic traditions.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 37","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1737}