Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 134

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This is a scholarly parallel-text presentation of biblical Psalms, displaying the same material across four textual traditions side by side: the Hebrew Tanakh (Tan), the Greek Septuagint (Sep), the Latin Vulgate (Vul), and the King James Version (KJV) with Strong's concordance numbers embedded. The KJV and Hebrew columns present the brief three-verse Psalm 134 — a "Song of Ascents" calling the Lord's servants who stand in the Temple at night to lift their hands and bless God, who blesses from Zion. The Greek and Latin columns present a much longer 21-verse psalm (Psalm 135 in Hebrew/KJV numbering, but numbered differently in the LXX due to the well-known versification shift between the traditions), which opens with "Hallelujah," recounts God's sovereign acts — choosing Israel, controlling creation, sending plagues on Egypt, defeating kings Sihon and Og — then mocks foreign idols as lifeless silver and gold with mouths that cannot speak, before closing with communal blessings from the houses of Israel, Aaron, and Levi. The juxtaposition of the two different psalm lengths under a single entry implicitly illustrates the numbering divergence between the Hebrew and Greek textual traditions, making this useful primarily for comparative Bible study or textual criticism rather than devotional reading.

Polyglot Bible: Psalms: Psalms 134

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