{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa044_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa044_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa044_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/psa044.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly parallel-Bible presentation of two consecutive Hebrew psalms \u2014 Psalm 44 and Psalm 45 \u2014 displayed simultaneously in four textual traditions: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers interleaved), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text, and the Latin Vulgate. The layout is designed for comparative textual study rather than devotional reading.\n\nPsalm 44 is a communal lament in which Israel contrasts God's past military interventions on their behalf with present abandonment: God once drove out nations and planted Israel by divine power alone, but now the nation suffers defeat, scattering, and humiliation \"like sheep for the slaughter\" \u2014 a phrase Paul later cites in Romans 8:36. The psalmist insists the people have not broken covenant or turned to foreign gods, making the suffering inexplicable, and ends with an urgent appeal: \"Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? Arise, cast us not off forever.\"\n\nPsalm 45, by contrast, is a royal wedding ode celebrating a magnificent king's beauty, military might, and just reign, then addressing his bride and promising dynastic perpetuity. It contains the theologically charged line \"Thy throne, O God, is forever and ever,\" which the New Testament book of Hebrews applies directly to Christ.\n\nThe distinctive value of this presentation is the side-by-side textual comparison, allowing readers to observe translation divergences \u2014 such as how \"Selah\" is handled, differences in verse division, and semantic nuances between traditions \u2014 making it primarily useful for biblical scholars, seminarians, or those studying the transmission history of the Psalter rather than general readers.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 44","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":1276}