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Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 95

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This is a parallel-text biblical reference display presenting the same canonical psalm position across four textual traditions: the King James Version (with embedded Strong's concordance numbers), the Septuagint (Greek), the Tanakh (Hebrew), and the Latin Vulgate. The KJV and Hebrew columns contain Psalm 95, the communal call to worship beginning "O come, let us sing unto the LORD" and ending with God's oath barring the disobedient wilderness generation from his rest. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns, however, contain the text of what the KJV tradition numbers as Psalm 96—"Sing to the Lord a new song"—a universalist hymn addressed to all nations announcing God's coming judgment of the earth. The distinctive scholarly value lies in this visible discrepancy: because the Septuagint combines certain psalms differently than the Masoretic Hebrew text, the psalm numbering diverges by one at this point, so the same canonical slot holds genuinely different content depending on the textual tradition. The Vulgate's superscription ("Canticum ipsi David, quando domus ædificabatur post captivitatem"—a song of David when the house was built after the captivity) also preserves a historical attribution absent from the Hebrew. This resource would be most useful to someone studying textual criticism, canon history, or the LXX/Masoretic divergence in the Psalter.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 95

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