Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 93

This is a parallel-text biblical scholarship resource presenting four ancient versions of adjacent psalms in aligned columns: the King James Version (with interleaved Strong's concordance numbers), the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Hebrew Masoretic/Tanakh text (Tan), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). The document implicitly illustrates the well-known psalter numbering discrepancy between traditions: the KJV and Hebrew columns show only Psalm 93's five verses (God reigning in cosmic majesty, sovereign over flood waters), while the Septuagint and Vulgate columns show a 23-verse psalm attributed to David "for the fourth day of the week," which corresponds to Psalm 94 in Hebrew/English numbering. That longer psalm is thematically distinct — a lament calling on God as an "avenger" to rise against the wicked, who oppress widows, foreigners, and orphans while claiming God does not see; it moves from complaint through personal testimony of divine rescue to confidence in retribution. The distinctive feature of this resource is its side-by-side juxtaposition, which allows direct comparison of how the Greek and Latin traditions divide or title psalms differently from the Hebrew, and how the Strong's numbers in the KJV column facilitate word-level lexical analysis. Anyone interested in textual criticism, comparative translation, or the manuscript history of the Psalms would find it a compact reference tool.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 93

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