Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 56

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of biblical psalm material displayed across four textual traditions side by side: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint (LXX), the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The core content is a lament psalm — likely Psalm 56 in the Hebrew/KJV tradition — in which the psalmist cries out to God under relentless enemy oppression, repeatedly affirming trust ("What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee") before moving to confident praise and vows of thanksgiving. The psalm's emotional arc runs from pleading vulnerability to assured deliverance, culminating in the declaration that God has rescued the psalmist from death to "walk before God in the light of the living." A notably distinctive feature the parallel format makes visible is a divergence in the psalm's superscription across traditions: the KJV/Hebrew text situates the psalm when "the Philistines took him in Gath," while the Septuagint and Vulgate instead reference David fleeing from Saul into a cave — a different historical episode entirely. This discrepancy reflects a well-documented difference between the Masoretic and Greek textual traditions in psalm headings. The document appears designed for comparative textual or liturgical scholarship, letting readers examine how translators and scribal communities preserved, adapted, or diverged in rendering the same sacred material.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 56

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