Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 45

This is a parallel polyglot Bible compilation presenting Psalm 45 (by KJV/Hebrew numbering) across four canonical textual traditions laid out in adjacent columns: the King James Version (with Strong's concordance numbers embedded inline), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns present the same content — Psalm 45, a royal wedding hymn extolling a king's surpassing beauty, righteous military power, and eternal throne, and summoning a bride to forsake her own people for the king's court. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns, however, present the psalm numbered 45 in *their own* traditions, which corresponds to Psalm 46 in Hebrew/KJV reckoning — the "God is our refuge and strength" psalm of divine protection amid earthquakes and collapsing nations. The document thus inadvertently (or deliberately) illustrates the well-known psalm numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew/Protestant tradition and the Greek/Latin/Catholic tradition, where a one-number offset runs across most of the Psalter. The embedded Strong's numbers in the KJV column mark this as a scholarly or devotional study resource designed for lexical comparison across source languages and manuscript traditions, rather than a straightforward reading text.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 45

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