{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa142_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa142_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_psa142_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/psa142.htm","summary":"This is a parallel-text scholarly presentation of a biblical psalm displayed simultaneously in four manuscript traditions: the English King James Version (KJV), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Tanakh, and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew Tanakh render what Protestant Bibles number as Psalm 142 \u2014 a short 7-8 verse lament attributed to David while hiding in a cave \u2014 while the Septuagint and Vulgate present a longer, 12-verse psalm headed by the superscription linking it to David's flight from his son Absalom, reflecting the well-known one-digit numbering divergence between the Hebrew and Greek/Latin traditions. The psalm's core content is a cry of desolation: the speaker is surrounded by enemies stronger than himself, has no human helper or refuge, and appeals directly to God as his sole shelter and \"portion in the land of the living.\" The most distinctive textual divergence appears in the Septuagint and Vulgate expansions, which add petitions absent from the shorter Hebrew version \u2014 including requests that God teach the psalmist to do God's will, lead him \"in a straight land,\" and destroy all enemies out of mercy. This presentation would primarily interest scholars of textual criticism, comparative translation, or liturgical history, since it makes visible how the same prayer tradition was transmitted, numbered, and elaborated differently across Jewish and Christian canonical streams.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 142","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":710}