Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 30

This is a parallel-column scholarly biblical text presenting a psalm across four distinct textual traditions: the King James Version (KJV) with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, the Septuagint (Greek, labeled "Sep"), the Masoretic Hebrew (Tanakh, labeled "Tan"), and the Latin Vulgate. The Hebrew and KJV columns present Psalm 30 — a song of thanksgiving attributed to David at the dedication of the house, moving from near-death despair to praise as God turns mourning into dancing. The Greek and Latin columns present what is numbered Psalm 30 in their traditions (Psalm 31 in Protestant/Hebrew numbering), a more extended lament and trust psalm beginning "In you, Lord, I have hoped," which includes vivid expressions of suffering, social abandonment, and confident plea for deliverance. The juxtaposition is itself a claim about biblical textual history: it visually demonstrates the well-known numbering divergence between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint/Vulgate, where the Greek and Latin traditions combine Psalms 9–10 into one, shifting all subsequent psalm numbers by one. The KJV text's Strong's number interleaving signals this is intended as a study or interlinear resource for scholarly or devotional comparison across textual traditions rather than a single readable translation.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 30

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