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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 79

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This is a scholarly parallel-text display of biblical psalms — specifically Psalms 79 and 80 — presented simultaneously in four textual traditions: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic Tanakh (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The format is designed for comparative textual criticism, with verse numbers and in the KJV column, Strong's Concordance reference numbers embedded inline. Psalm 79 (the KJV and Hebrew columns) is a communal lament attributed to Asaph, mourning the violent desecration of Jerusalem and the Temple by foreign nations, the unburied dead left as carrion, and Israel's humiliation before its neighbors — culminating in a plea for God to forgive past sins, avenge the spilled blood of his servants, and redirect divine wrath toward the nations that do not know him. Psalm 80 (dominant in the Septuagint and Vulgate columns) shifts to a different image, petitioning the shepherd of Israel enthroned on the cherubim to restore his people, and developing an extended allegory of Israel as a vine transplanted from Egypt that once covered the mountains but has now been stripped bare and ravaged by wild boars. A reader would find this useful for comparing how the same texts were transmitted, translated, and sometimes assigned differently across Jewish and Christian canonical traditions — the Septuagint and Vulgate numbering diverges from the Hebrew, placing what Protestants call Psalm 80 where the Greek tradition labels it differently, reflecting longstanding differences in psalm division between textual families.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 79

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