Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 32

This is a scholarly parallel-text reference work presenting two psalms side by side across four major textual traditions of the Hebrew Bible: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers embedded in the English), the Septuagint (ancient Greek), the Hebrew Tanakh (Masoretic text), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns contain Psalm 32 (a penitential psalm attributed to David), which moves from the anguish of unconfessed sin through confession and divine forgiveness to an exhortation to rejoice in the LORD. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns contain what is numbered differently due to the well-known divergence in psalm numbering between the Hebrew and Greek/Latin traditions — presenting instead a creation and praise psalm (Psalm 33 in Hebrew numbering), which celebrates God's word as the foundation of the heavens, his sovereignty over nations, and his watchful care for those who fear him. The distinctive feature of this layout is that it visually exposes the numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew/Protestant tradition and the Greek/Latin tradition, where the merger of Psalms 9–10 in the LXX shifts all subsequent psalm numbers by one. A reader would find this useful for text-critical comparison, sermon preparation, or studying how the same scriptural slot across traditions carries entirely different content.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 32

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