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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 39

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This is a scholarly parallel-text edition of Psalm 39 (by canonical numbering), presenting the same psalm number across four textual traditions simultaneously: the King James Version with Strong's concordance numbers appended to each word, the Septuagint (Greek), the Tanakh (Hebrew with cantillation marks), and the Latin Vulgate. The format is designed for comparative textual study, laying the four witnesses side by side in columns. A notable and distinctive feature the document implicitly exposes is the well-known psalm-numbering divergence between traditions: the Hebrew/KJV "Psalm 39" (a lament about human mortality, vanity, and the brevity of life, ending with a plea to be spared before death) is not the same poem as what the Septuagint and Vulgate label Psalm 39, which is actually MT/KJV Psalm 40 — a thanksgiving for being lifted from a "pit of misery," with God placing a new song in the psalmist's mouth and the psalmist proclaiming God's righteousness. This divergence stems from the LXX combining Hebrew Psalms 9–10 into a single psalm, shifting all subsequent numbers by one. The Strong's numbers embedded in the KJV column serve as a lexical key linking each English word to the underlying Hebrew root, making the edition useful for word-study alongside translation comparison.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 39

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