Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 101

This is a scholarly parallel-text resource presenting biblical psalm content across four canonical traditions side by side: the King James Version (KJV, English), the Septuagint (Sep, Greek), the Masoretic Hebrew Tanakh (Tan), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul). The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 101, David's first-person vow of righteous governance — pledging to walk in integrity, refuse to look upon wickedness, exclude the deceitful and proud from his household, and purge evildoers from the city of the Lord. The Septuagint and Vulgate columns present what Protestant tradition numbers as Psalm 102, a penitential lament in which an afflicted speaker (described as "the poor man") cries out to God amid vivid images of physical and social suffering — days vanishing like smoke, bones burning, isolation like a desert pelican or a solitary sparrow — before pivoting to praise God's eternal permanence and confidence that he will restore Zion. The divergence in content between columns is itself the text's distinctive scholarly point: it silently demonstrates the well-known canonical numbering discrepancy between the Hebrew/Protestant tradition and the Greek/Latin traditions, where the Septuagint and Vulgate number psalms roughly one lower from around Psalm 10 onward. Anyone deciding whether to read further would find this useful as a collation tool for comparative textual or canonical study of the Psalter.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 101

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