Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 118

This is a parallel scriptural reference text presenting two consecutive Hebrew psalms in different textual traditions: Psalm 118 in the King James Version with embedded Strong's concordance numbers (the numeric codes after each word indicating the underlying Hebrew lexemes), and Psalm 119 in Greek from the Septuagint, with section headings marking the Hebrew acrostic alphabet (aleph, beth, gimel, daleth, etc.). Psalm 118 is a thanksgiving hymn of deliverance — the speaker recounts being surrounded by enemies, rescued by God, and proclaims the famous lines about the rejected stone becoming the cornerstone and "this is the day the LORD has made." Psalm 119, the longest psalm, is a sustained 176-verse meditation on love for divine law (Torah), structured as an acrostic poem where each section's verses begin with successive Hebrew letters; the Greek text here covers roughly the first 122 verses. The Septuagint rendering shows characteristic Greek vocabulary for law-keeping (δικαιώματα, μαρτύρια, ἐντολαί — "statutes," "testimonies," "commandments"), and the psalmist repeatedly pleads for understanding, life, and deliverance while professing unwavering fidelity to God's word despite persecution. The distinctive feature of this presentation is its dual-tradition scholarly apparatus: the KJV text functions as a Strong's-keyed interlinear tool for Hebrew lexical study, while the Septuagint column serves textual critics or liturgical scholars interested in early Greek translation choices. A reader would find this useful primarily as a reference tool for comparative biblical scholarship rather than devotional reading.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 118

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