Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 108

This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of biblical psalms across four manuscript traditions: the King James Version (KJV), the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Hebrew Tanakh (Tan), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul), with Strong's concordance numbers embedded in the KJV column. The KJV and Hebrew columns present Psalm 108, a Davidic hymn of confident praise in which the speaker declares his heart "fixed," calls on God to be exalted above the heavens, and then shifts to a divine oracle claiming territorial sovereignty over Gilead, Manasseh, Ephraim, Judah, Moab, Edom, and Philistia — ending with a plea for God's help in battle since human aid is worthless. Strikingly, the Septuagint and Vulgate columns present substantially different content under the same header — an imprecatory psalm in which the speaker, surrounded by deceitful enemies who repay love with hatred, calls down devastating curses: that the enemy's days be few, his children orphaned, his wife widowed, his memory erased, and his curse upon himself like a garment soaking into his bones. The distinctive value of this resource lies in making visible the textual divergence between the Hebrew/Protestant psalm tradition and the Greek/Latin Catholic one, where numbering shifts and content can differ dramatically — a core issue in biblical textual criticism. It would be most useful to someone comparing manuscript traditions, studying imprecatory psalms, or researching how Psalm 109 (the "diabolos" psalm cited in Acts 1:20) appears across ancient witnesses.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 108

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