{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa084_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa084_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa084_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/psa084.htm","summary":"This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of two adjacent biblical psalms displayed in four textual traditions simultaneously: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic Tanakh (Hebrew with cantillation marks), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 84, a lyric poem expressing intense longing for God's sanctuary \u2014 featuring the famous images of sparrows nesting at the altar, pilgrims transforming the arid \"Valley of Baca\" into a place of springs, and the declaration that \"a day in thy courts is better than a thousand.\" The Septuagint and Vulgate columns present what is numbered Psalm 85 in Hebrew/Protestant tradition (Psalm 84 in the LXX/Vulgate's offset numbering), a communal prayer for national restoration after exile, culminating in the celebrated personification of divine virtues: \"Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed.\" A distinctive feature of the KJV column is the interleaving of Strong's Concordance reference numbers alongside every word, marking this as a study-Bible or lexical-concordance format rather than plain devotional text. The side-by-side layout implicitly foregrounds the numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew and Greek/Latin canonical traditions \u2014 a point of ongoing interest in textual criticism and comparative biblical studies.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 84","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":734}