Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 60

This is a scholarly biblical interlinear or parallel-text document presenting what appears to be Psalm 60 (and the divergent LXX/Vulgate equivalent) across four ancient textual traditions simultaneously: the KJV with interleaved Strong's concordance numbers, the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Hebrew Masoretic Text (Tan/Tanakh), and the Latin Vulgate. The Hebrew and KJV columns carry the same content — a communal lament attributed to David during Joab's campaign against Edom, in which God is blamed for military defeat ("thou hast cast us off, thou hast scattered us"), followed by a divine oracle asserting sovereignty over Israelite and foreign territories (Gilead, Manasseh, Moab, Edom, Philistia), and closing with renewed confidence in divine help. A notable feature of the document is that the Septuagint and Vulgate columns contain substantially different material — an individual supplication ("from the ends of the earth I cry to you") corresponding to Hebrew Psalm 61 — revealing the well-known one-psalm numbering offset between the Hebrew/Protestant tradition and the LXX/Catholic tradition. The document is aimed at serious students of biblical textual criticism or comparative liturgics: it presupposes facility with Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and the Strong's numbers embedded in the KJV column make it useful for lexical study. Someone interested in how ancient translations diverged, or in the interplay between lament and confidence in the Psalter, would find this a useful primary-source reference rather than secondary analysis.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 60

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