{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa038_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa038_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa038_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/psa038.htm","summary":"This is a parallel-column scholarly presentation of biblical psalm texts across four textual traditions: the King James Version (KJV) of Psalm 38 with embedded Strong's Concordance reference numbers, the Septuagint (LXX) in Greek, the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns contain Psalm 38, a penitential lament attributed to David in which the speaker describes physical decay, festering wounds, and social isolation as consequences of sin, while pleading with God for rescue from both divine chastisement and human enemies. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns present what corresponds to Psalm 39 in the KJV tradition (the numbering diverges between Hebrew and Greek manuscript traditions), a meditation on guarding one's speech, the brevity and vanity of human life, and trust in God as the sole hope. The text's most distinctive feature is precisely this juxtaposition: it implicitly demonstrates the well-known numbering and textual discrepancy between the Hebrew/Protestant and Greek/Latin Catholic psalm traditions, where a single column position holds materially different psalm content depending on the tradition. It will be of primary interest to biblical scholars, seminarians, and students of textual criticism engaged in comparative manuscript study.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 38","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1038}