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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 22

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This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of Psalms 22 and 23 from the Hebrew Bible, displaying the same psalms simultaneously in four textual traditions: the English King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers for lexical cross-referencing), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 22 — the anguished lament beginning "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" — which moves from vivid imagery of physical suffering and social humiliation (bones out of joint, mockers, garments divided by lot) toward confident praise and a universalist vision of all nations worshipping God. The Greek and Latin columns present Psalm 23, the familiar pastoral poem of the Lord as shepherd leading the speaker through green pastures and the valley of the shadow of death to dwell in God's house forever. The distinctive value of this presentation is comparative-textual: placing the four traditions side by side allows readers to track divergences in wording, verse numbering, and theological emphasis across manuscript families — a format useful for biblical scholars, translators, or anyone studying how Psalm 22's suffering language was received and recontextualized across traditions, including its later appropriation in Christian typology.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 22

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