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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 40

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This is a scholarly polyglot presentation of Psalm 40 (Protestant/Hebrew numbering), displaying four parallel textual traditions side by side: the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The psalm is a Davidic lament-to-praise: the speaker recounts being lifted from a "horrible pit" and given a new song of praise, then reflects on preferring obedience over sacrifice ("mine ears hast thou opened"), publicly proclaims God's righteousness, and closes by pleading urgently for deliverance from enemies and his own overwhelming sins, declaring himself "poor and needy" yet confident in God's attention. The most distinctive feature is the Strong's number annotation woven into every KJV word — a tool for tracing exact Hebrew and Greek lexical roots — marking this as a reference or study resource rather than a devotional text. A notable scholarly wrinkle: the Septuagint and Vulgate columns present what is actually Psalm 41 in Protestant numbering ("Blessed is he who considers the poor"), revealing the well-known one-unit offset between the LXX/Vulgate and Hebrew/Protestant psalter numbering systems. This document would appeal primarily to biblical scholars or serious students interested in comparative textual criticism, translation history, or Hebrew-Greek lexical study across the major ancient manuscript traditions.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 40

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