Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 131

This is a parallel polyglot Bible text presenting two adjacent psalms across four textual traditions — the English King James Version (KJV), the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Hebrew Tanakh (Tan), and the Latin Vulgate (Vul) — displayed in a synoptic table format. The KJV and Hebrew columns contain Psalm 131, a brief three-verse psalm of humility attributed to David, in which the speaker renounces pride and ambition and compares their soul to a weaned child resting peacefully against its mother. The Greek and Latin columns, however, contain the longer Psalm 132 (numbered 131 in the LXX/Vulgate tradition due to a well-known divergence caused by the Septuagint merging Psalms 9 and 10), which concerns David's oath to find a permanent dwelling place for God, the ark's arrival at Zion, and God's covenant promise to sustain David's royal line conditionally. The most distinctive feature of this text is the implicit illustration of the Psalm numbering offset between Protestant and Catholic/Orthodox traditions: by placing all four versions in parallel columns, the layout makes visible how the same column position holds *different* psalm content depending on the tradition. A reader deciding whether to engage with this text fully would find it most valuable as a reference tool for comparative textual study of the Psalter across linguistic and canonical traditions, rather than as devotional or expository reading.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 131

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