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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 85

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This is a scholarly parallel-Bible presentation of two Psalms displayed simultaneously across four textual traditions: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's Concordance numbers for Hebrew/Greek lexical cross-referencing), the Greek Septuagint, the Hebrew Tanakh, and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV/Tanakh columns contain Psalm 85, a communal lament and praise poem attributed to the sons of Korah, which moves from thanksgiving for God's past restoration of Israel (forgiving sin, turning away wrath) to petition for renewed mercy, and culminates in the celebrated poetic image of "mercy and truth met together; righteousness and peace have kissed each other." The Septuagint and Vulgate columns carry what is numbered Psalm 86 in those traditions (a Davidic prayer of an individual who is poor and beset by enemies, appealing to God's compassion and incomparability among the gods), reflecting the well-known one-verse numbering divergence between the Hebrew and Greek/Latin canonical traditions. The Strong's numbers embedded inline in the KJV are the text's most distinctive feature, enabling word-level comparison with the Hebrew and Greek originals without separate tools. The resource is aimed at serious Bible students or translators who need to compare how a given passage reads across the major ancient textual families in a single glance.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 85

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