Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 84

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of two adjacent biblical psalms displayed in four textual traditions simultaneously: the King James Version (English), the Septuagint (Greek), the Masoretic Tanakh (Hebrew with cantillation marks), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 84, a lyric poem expressing intense longing for God's sanctuary — featuring the famous images of sparrows nesting at the altar, pilgrims transforming the arid "Valley of Baca" into a place of springs, and the declaration that "a day in thy courts is better than a thousand." The Septuagint and Vulgate columns present what is numbered Psalm 85 in Hebrew/Protestant tradition (Psalm 84 in the LXX/Vulgate's offset numbering), a communal prayer for national restoration after exile, culminating in the celebrated personification of divine virtues: "Mercy and truth have met together; righteousness and peace have kissed." A distinctive feature of the KJV column is the interleaving of Strong's Concordance reference numbers alongside every word, marking this as a study-Bible or lexical-concordance format rather than plain devotional text. The side-by-side layout implicitly foregrounds the numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew and Greek/Latin canonical traditions — a point of ongoing interest in textual criticism and comparative biblical studies.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 84

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